Charlie Puth’s Dating History Is The Inspiration Behind His Emotional Lyrics

Thorne and Puth were first spotted holding hands while on a Miami beach stroll in December 2016. Their next public appearance was at Y100’s Jingle Ball later that month, where Thorne watched him perform.

Things quickly got shaken up, however, when the “Lightswitch” singer accused Thorne of cheating on her ex-flame Tyler Posey. “I don’t know Tyler personally, but I know he shouldn’t be treated this way,” Puth cryptically tweeted on Dec. 22, 2016. Thorne promptly cleared things up, however, tweeting that she had not publicly confirmed her split with the “Teen Wolf” actor. “Ty and I have been broken up for like over two weeks and charlie and I ARENT DATING we are friends,” Thorne said in response to the backlash on Dec. 22, 2016.

Later, in a July 2017 SiriusXM interview, the former Disney Channel star stated that the drama could have easily been avoided if Puth had contacted her directly. “Charlie saw an old news article, and he didn’t look at the date, and the date is old, and it’s about me and Ty,” Thorne said in an interview on SiriusXM’s “The Jenny McCarthy Show.” “I felt super bad.”

The “We Don’t Talk Anymore” pair reportedly dated briefly in March 2016. In an interview with Billboard, Puth confirmed he and Gomez had a “very short-lived, very small, but very impactful” relationship, but stopped short of confirming if they were ever officially together.

“I don’t kiss and tell, but the only way a song like that can come across as real is if there’s something else going on behind the scenes,” Puth said. He admitted that the relationship ultimately “really messed me up.”

Puth said one of the reasons the relationship failed was because of someone else in Gomez’s life. “I’m trying to put this the best way possible: It wasn’t like I was the only person on her mind,” he said, a presumed reference to Gomez’s then off-and-on ex, Justin Bieber.

Puth was linked to Danielle Campbell in October 2017. When Puth appeared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” on Oct. 12 that year, he revealed, “I’m actually not single right now. I’m in a relationship . . . [but] I’m kind of done with dating people in the public.”

Puth’s statement instantly sparked rumors that he was in a secret romance with “The Originals” actor, who has also dated Gregg Sulkin and Louis Tomlinson. Fans were further convinced that the pair was a secret item when Puth shared a screenshot of him FaceTiming Campbell a couple of days later. The picture was quickly deleted, hinting that Puth was trying to keep his relationship with the actress on the DL.

If the couple were an item, it’s unclear when they ended things because of the private nature of the relationship.

In September 2018, Puth shared a number of pictures with 26-year-old actress Halston Sage on Instagram, which sparked rumors that the pair was more than just friends. The “Prodigal Son” star and Puth were inseparable and spotted together at multiple public events before apparently fizzling out after a few weeks. The photos the pair posted on Instagram were ultimately deleted.

Puth was linked to singer-songwriter Charlotte Lawrence in early 2019. Rumors first circulated about the musically-talented couple in February 2019, when Puth and Lawrence were spotted together several times during New York Fashion Week.

Puth confirmed their relationship in a since-deleted Valentine’s Day Instagram weeks later. “Happy valentine’s day,” he captioned a picture with his arm around the 19-year-old singer. Lawrence responded to the post with a blushing heart emoji in the comment section.

Sadly, the happy couple didn’t last. It’s unclear exactly when they split up, but in September 2019, Puth tweeted, “Only because I want people to stop asking the question….Yes I am single now…and please don’t believe everything you read…thank you.”

Unless Puth dated someone else privately in 2019, Lawrence was likely the inspiration behind Puth’s emotional breakup anthem, “That’s Hilarious.” In his March 23, 2022, TikTok about the song, he had this to say about the making of the song: “I’m really excited for the song to come out, but every time I hear it, I’m kind of brought back to a time that was really, really challenging in my life,” he said, adding, “It just brought me back to 2019, which was the f*cking worst year of my life.”

Unless Puth is dating someone privately, it appears the singer is single at the time of publication.