Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood finally address 'ridiculous' reports of White Lotus feud
'The White Lotus' stars Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood have brushed off claims they have been feuding every since filming ended on the hit HBO series.
Walton Goggins has confirmed there is "no feud" with Aimee Lou Wood after 'The White Lotus'.
The 53-year-old actor and his co-star - who played Rick Hatchett and Chelsea on the hit HBO show - have faced claims of a rift between them after he unfollowed her on Instagram once season three of Mike White's anthology drama was finished.
In a joint interview for Variety's Actor on Actor series, he said: “There is no feud. I adore, I love this woman madly, and she is so important to me.
“This is Goldie Hawn. This is Meg Ryan. She can do anything, and she will. You watch what the next 20 years of her experience will be.
"I’ll be on an island, I think Greece. But she’s special. There is no feud. She is love and I know that I am that to her. We care about each other very deeply.”
Walton insisted the speculation over him unfollowing her on social media was "such a comment on where we’re at culturally".
He argued: "Why is everyone obsessing over Instagram? That is irrelevant. We don’t give a s**** about Instagram.
“Why not have conversations about the story and Rick and Chelsea and enjoy it?”
Meanwhile, 'Sex Education' star Aimee, 31, explained why she decided to stay silent on the rumours despite initially wanting to correct everyone.
She said: "Eventually I just started to sit back and watch these people making something out of absolutely nothing.”
Walton took the opportunity in their interview to "follow" her right there and then, as he found his phone and opened up Instagram.
He added: "It’s all so ridiculous. It’s just a part of me just saying goodbye to this character so that now Aimee and I will be friends for f****** ever.”
As they hugged, she told him: “I completely understand.”
Meanwhile, Walton recalled having an emotional goodbye with 'Justified' castmate Tim Olyphant before not talking to him "for almost two years", which is what he's done "with every single thing" he's worked on.
There was also the added heartbreak of him returning to Bangkok, Thailand for the first time since he escaped to the city after his wife took her own life in 2004.
He explained: "My catharsis in this experience was different than other people’s, because of my history in this place.
"I knew what we had gone through, and I knew how close that we had gotten, and I needed to begin to process saying goodbye to Rick and Chelsea. “And I knew that that was going to take a while for me, so I let her know, this is what I’ve gotta do. And she was extremely supportive about that.”
He "needed to just back away from everyone", noting it wasn't a case of solely ignoring Aimee.
He said: "I haven’t spoken to anyone. I couldn’t handle it. Judge me or don’t. I don’t give a f*** what you think.
"This is my process. Rick means everything to me, and Chelsea means everything to me. And so that’s what I needed to do for me to process all of this.”
