Paul Mescal responds to TikTok one night stand claims and admits 'it's devastating'

Paul Mescal is making a return to the big screen in Gladiator II when the much anticipated film lands in cinemas next month

Actor Paul Mescal has responded to TikTok one night stand claims.

Hilarious rumours emerged earlier this year that he was "running away" from his dates as videos started being posted on the social media platform. The clips alleged that the 28-year-old had string of one night stands and then them in a park as he jogged away.

However, Paul has now set the record straight and confirmed what we already thought - that the rumours were false. In fact, he actually found the videos amusing, but his mum didn't feel quite the same as him and his other siblings as she found the accusations upsetting.

Speaking to GQ, he said: "We were looking at the videos and we were p****** ourselves at it. Categorically untrue. And we were laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing…And the one thing that upset me was that I was in the kitchen, I remember my mum looking at the videos and she was getting upset. Isn’t that devastating?

"I was like, Oh, it’s funny to us—my brother, me, my sister—because we know that this is the way the internet works. It’s hilarious. If it was true, it’d be f****** bad, but as a rumor, it’s funny. Then I was like, Oh, if you’re a mother, her impulse is to come out and be like, 'He wouldn’t do this.'"

Paul's latest project will be starring in Gladiator II which features a star studded cast including Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington, and Joseph Quinn. The ensemble will also see Connie Nielsen and Derek Jacobi reprising their roles from the first movie.

Mescal plays the lead role of Lucius, son of the first movie's main character, Maximus, who is forced to fight in the Colosseum after an army invades his home. The film is due to hit cinemas on November 15 and it has now been announced that the movie will premiere on November 13 in London.

Paul has said he deliberately avoided watching Gladiator before beginning work on the sequel. Although he previously saw Sir Ridley Scott 's epic after it hit cinemas in 2000, he refused to revisit the movie until work on the sequel wrapped, as reported by Bang Showbiz.

However, once he did watch the film, Paul admitted he felt the "pressure" of whether Gladiator II would live up to the first flick, which saw Russell Crowe win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as enslaved General Maximus Decimus Meridius.

He told Empire magazine : "Over New Year's, we watched it with a group of my best friends down in Cork, and that's when I was like, 'Oh s***. The pressure.'" Paul added: "Whatever anxiety I had about living up to the first one, I now feel totally at ease. In fact, I'm confident."

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