Kevin Costner is rumored to be in a relationship with folk singer Jewel.
Now he’s going public with something no one saw coming.
And Kevin Costner broke his silence about Jewel with this surprising confession.
Kevin Costner gives a shocking comment about his dating Jewel
Veteran actor Kevin Costner and folk singer Jewel have been rumored to be in a relationship since they were pictured embracing in the British Virgin Islands last December.
He appeared on The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM to promote his new movie Horizon: An American Saga.
Stern asked the Yellowstone star if he was in love, saying he had heard rumors.
“I know, well that’s what they are,” Costner replied.
“Jewel and I are friends,” Costner said. “We’ve never gone out. She’s special. And I don’t want these rumors to ruin our friendship because that’s what we have.”
Costner said that the press made the picture of Jewel sitting in his lap out to be something more than it was.
“No, Jewel and I are friends. We’ve never gone out ever,” Costner explained. “She’s special, and I don’t want, I don’t want these rumors to ruin our friendship because that’s what we have. She’s special to me. She’s beautiful enough to go out with.”
Kevin Costner talks about how the rumor began
Stern wondered how rumors like this get this started.
“We were down at Branson’s Island. She has a foundation, which I didn’t know, and she was part of the foundation. And Richard Branson has been asking me for years to come down to Necker Island, and so I finally did,” Costner recalled.
He finalized a bitter public divorce from his ex-wife Christine Baumgartner in February after 18 years of marriage.
“I got on a plane with nine people. Jewel was one of them. Emma Watson was one of them. She was somebody I just had some tremendous conversations with along with Emma,” Costner said. “The rumor was, I went down on a private plane with her and I went back on a private plane with her.”
Costner said that Jewel was great but it’s not happening between them.
“She’s beautiful and smart enough for all those things. It just has never happened for us,” Costner added. “She’s everything you might think, but it just hasn’t happened.”
“Because I’ve had conversations with her text-wise . . . and so we have a friendship. We don’t have a romance. We’ve not dated. It’s just never happened for us,” Costner continued
He said he’s had to tell his kids that they aren’t dating.
Jewel didn’t confirm or deny that the pair were dating when she asked about it in April
“He’s a great person,” Jewel said. “The public fascination is intense for sure.”
She told People Magazine in a May interview that she learned to keep relationships private after she dated actor Sean Penn in the 1990s.
And she simply said she was “happy” when asked if she was dating Costner.
Kevin Costner denies there’s a relationship, but that could just be to keep things under wraps.
Only time will tell if there’s really something going on there.
