Look Back at Blake Lively and Penn Badgley’s Quotes About Past Relationship
While Dan and Serena made it down the aisle on Gossip Girl, Penn Badgley and Blake Lively called it quits long before the 2012 series finale.
Us Weekly confirmed in October 2010 that Badgley and Lively had split after three years together. One year after Gossip Girl wrapped, Badgley recalled what it was like to continue making the teen drama after their split.
“We were very much caught up in the show, which itself was a six-year endurance test. Our relationship was a part of that and helped us through it,” Badgley told Elle in 2013. “I mean, like anything valuable, it was good and it was bad and it was a learning experience.”
Despite the drama on-screen between all of the characters, Badgley has maintained that he and Lively didn’t have any issues behind the scenes.
Both actors have since moved on and started familiars of their own. Lively married Ryan Reynolds in 2012 and has since welcomed four kids. Badgley, meanwhile, married Domino Kirke in 2017, and welcomed one child together. (They announced in February 2025 that they were gearing up to welcome twins. Badgley is also the stepfather of Cassius, Kirke’s son from her previous relationship.)
Scroll through for more from Lively and Badgley on their relationship:
