Gracie Abrams: How Boyfriend Paul Mescal Strengthened Her Songwriting

Gracie Abrams initially “worried” that being in a steady relationship with Paul Mescal might end up “threatening [her] drive to write music,” something she opened up about in an interview with Vogue. But in a new Rolling Stone cover story published Tuesday (Aug. 4), the singer clarified her remarks, emphasizing that her longterm romance with the actor has only had the opposite effect.

Coming about two months after Vogue shared her comments about Mescal, the RS piece noted that Abrams was surprised to see how some people had interpreted it as her saying that she felt her career as a whole was “threatened”…