Cole Sprouse claims he received ‘death threats, criminal stuff’ from Riverdale fans after Lili Reinhart split

Cole Sprouse has opened up concerning the abuse he received from Riverdale fans after his split from co-star Lili Reinhart.

The 2 actors started relationship in 2017, at which era their Riverdale characters, Jughead and Betty, had been additionally an merchandise on the present.

With life imitating artwork on the time, fans of the CW teen drama – which is presently airing its seventh and last season – had been desperate to root for the previous Disney Channel star and Reinhart, 26.

Nevertheless, Sprouse, 31, later devastated fans after he confirmed that the pair had split in March 2020.

Chatting with Vulture in a joint solid interview, the Candy Life on Deck youngster star mirrored on the “actually nasty” reactions he confronted from fans following the breakup.

“I get a variety of stuff despatched to my home or my family members’ homes. Demise threats, actually nasty, truthfully criminal stuff,” Sprouse alleged. “And I do assume it’s as a result of at the least 4 of us at this desk have dated our co-workers.”

Camila Mendes, 29, and Charles Melton, 32, whose characters Veronica and Reggie date on the present, had been additionally collectively in actual life from 2018 to 2019.

“Is that only a consequence of an unbelievable love? Or is that what fanaticism seems like?” Sprouse questioned. “Maybe as a result of these traces had been blurred to our viewers, it’s onerous to interrupt these issues up when life strikes on.”

The actor has beforehand spoken concerning the difficulties of navigating the aftermath of his relationship with Reinhart. “It was actually onerous,” Sprouse informed Alex Cooper on her Name Her Daddy podcast in March. “I do know we each did fairly a bit of harm to one another.”

Months after the 2 broke up, the Hustlers actor got here out as a “proud bisexual girl”.

In an interview with GQ final yr, Sprouse acknowledged that whereas their relationship had “all this public foreign money”, what they’d was “as actual because it will get”.

Sprouse has since been relationship mannequin Ari Lou Fournier. In January of this yr, the couple celebrated their two-year anniversary.

In the meantime, earlier this month, Reinhart confirmed her new relationship with TikTok star Jack Martin.

In a celebratory Instagram Story on 3 August, Reinhart wrote: “It’s my cowboy’s birthday,” alongside a photograph of Martin sporting a black cowboy hat.

“I’m so grateful for the sunshine you’ve introduced into my life,” she wrote over one other picture of herself and Martin embracing whereas standing on a pier. “Glad birthday, mon petite.”