As if celebrities aren’t already living with a magnifying glass over their lives 24/7, Suits star Patrick J. Adams opened up about the realities of posting on social media and how it can backfire on you. Patrick posted an Instagram photo with costar Meghan Markle—who just so happens to be Prince Harry’s girlfriend—last month, but the image was soon deleted, along with all of his social accounts, without explanation.
In an interview with Esquire.com, Patrick discussed his anxieties when it comes to social media. “I’m not good at it,” he said. “I overthink every post that I put out and the ramifications and who’ll be listening and how it’ll be received.”
As for the throwback photo he posted of Meghan—she plays his fiancée on the USA series—kissing him on the cheek? “I posted this old photo I had found of Meghan and I on set,” he said. “I went to bed, and woke up in the morning and realized ‘Oh, yeah. I live in a world where you can’t post things about Meghan.’”
The picture quickly blew up and was misconstrued. “I had this onslaught of people retweeting the thing, people thinking it was a recent picture, and I just thought, ‘What the hell is going on?’ It was such an innocent moment of sentimentality that was twisted into something totally different. It made me feel like… why put myself through this? We’re like brother and sister, it’s not like it was lurid or anything, but it just became a story that people wanted to talk about.”
I hope Meghan and Patrick’s friendship is stronger than this online drama. Let them live, you guys.