Former Adult Entertainer Claims She Dated Timothee Chalamet for Years Before Kylie Jenner Romance

A former adult entertainer claims she was romantically involved with Timothée Chalamet for years before he began dating Kylie Jenner — and according to her, she was “blindsided” when news of their relationship surfaced.

“I see these things about him dating Kylie Jenner and I was very confused about that,” Sarah Tena told the Daily Mail in an interview published Friday, March 13.

Tena, 32, alleged that she and Chalamet, 30, had been seeing each other on and off for roughly three years before reports of his romance with Jenner, 28, made headlines.

“At first, I thought it was fake news and then I was like maybe it’s a PR thing,” she said. “But now it looks like maybe they are together. I don’t know… It doesn’t add up.”

According to Tena, their connection began after she reached out to the actor on Instagram when she discovered him in the Netflix film The King. She said she initially responded to one of his Instagram Stories with a black heart emoji but received no reply.

Three months later, she tried again — this time with a drooling face emoji — and Chalamet finally responded.

“I wanted to talk to him, and he hearts what I had responded back… and he just likes it,” she explained.

Tena claimed that about a month later the Dune star messaged her directly, and the two eventually exchanged phone numbers. She alleged they met in person soon after at a friend’s home in Santa Monica while she was visiting Los Angeles.

She recalled Chalamet playing Bob Dylan songs for her while they drank wine and bonded over their shared love of movies. At the time, he had recently landed what would later become his Oscar-nominated role in A Complete Unknown.

“I went over there and he had all these scripts up for the Bob Dylan role and I was like ‘what is this’ and he’s like ‘it’s for Bob Dylan, I’m going to play him’ and I was like ‘that’s so cool,’” she told the Daily Mail. “He played me a few songs and he was so great. He had been practicing maybe for a month, he told me.”

Tena claimed the two continued seeing each other periodically and eventually developed a close friendship.

She later said her feelings for the actor deepened.

“I was in love with Timothée,” she said, explaining that she told him she had “feelings” for him and hoped their relationship would become more serious.

During what she said was their final meeting in June 2022, Tena recalled visiting Chalamet at his New York apartment while he was in the city for a photoshoot. She said she brought him a bracelet with an evil eye as a small gift.

“I think with me doing that it brought us closer than we were,” she said. “Then everything changed [with the] Kylie Jenner thing.”

According to Tena, that meeting was the last time the pair saw each other in person.

She said she later sent Chalamet a belated birthday message on January 5, 2023, which he “hearted,” adding that it was the final interaction they had.

Shortly afterward, Chalamet was seen interacting with Jenner during Paris Fashion Week, and the pair were later linked romantically.