Love, Career & Family Sarah's Biggest Regret

What Age Gap? The Actress Is Living an American Love Story.

- Caitlin Spencer

In Ocean’s 8, Sarah Paulson plays a suburban mum who is also an expert at moving stolen goods. But off-screen, the statuesque American Horror Story star is more famous for stealing the heart of another much older actress.

Sarah (43) and Two and a Half Men veteran Holland Taylor (75) are one of the most talked-about power couples in show business and Sarah has recently spoken candidly about their relationship.

Sarah confesses, “People look at me and Holland, and say, ‘Mummy issues?’ But I parent her as much as she parents me, so that’s not it. I’ve always had older friends. A lot of people have a stunted way of looking at older people – it’s a way of distancing themselves from something that they think won’t happen to them. I have the good fortune of being with someone who is older and wiser than I am.”

The couple first met at a dinner party 12 years ago. Sarah remembers Holland as “the most exquisitely beautiful woman I’d ever seen”, but they didn’t become a couple for another eight years and Sarah now calls her “the most spectacular person on the planet”.

Sarah came out by accident in 2005, when her then-girlfriend, actress Cherry Jones, won an award and Sarah passionately kissed her. “What was I going to do? Slap her on the shoulder and say, ‘Good job!’?”