Holland Taylor, 83, Talks Navigating Work and Distance to Keep Romance With Sarah Paulson, 51, Alive

Holland Taylor is getting candid about her 12-year relationship with Sarah Paulson — and why they’re still not living together after all these years.

During an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show on Tuesday, October 20, the 83-year-old actress revealed that their respective schedules keep her and Paulson, 51, apart for a large chunk of the time.

“We do as much time as we possibly can, because work takes us apart constantly,” Taylor explained, according to Entertainment Weekly.

Although they’ve been together since 2015, Paulson and Taylor have chosen to live separately, and the arrangement seems to work for them.

“I have an apartment here [in New York] and she stays here at my apartment when she’s here, and we stay together here when we’re both here,” the Legally Blonde star added.

Taylor, who also has a house on the West Coast, pointed out that she and the American Horror Story star try to be together “as much as geography and our jobs let us be.”

In 2024, Paulson revealed that their unusual living arrangement was one reason her relationship with Taylor had lasted more than a decade.

“We’ve been together for a long time now,” Paulson said on the Smartless podcast on May 14, 2024. “And part of it has to do with, we’re together when we want to be, and we’re not when we don’t.”

Paulson also pointed out that both she and Taylor had different experiences with past romances.

“Holland, before me, had not been in a ton of long-term relationships,” Paulson explained at the time. “Whereas Holland is my sort of third, you know, more than five-year relationship, so I tend to do that and have more experience doing that.”

“Holland has it, and so her life, and to get to be her age and sort of not having really cohabitated with someone for a long time, I think it was a lot to sort of, all of a sudden have me and all my meanness in her space,” the All’s Fair actress added.

Taylor and Paulson first met in 2005 but didn’t go public with their relationship until 2015.