Lorde Confirms Justin Warren Split, Reveals What She Learned From It

Lorde and her longtime boyfriend Justin Warren were rumored to have split when, in 2024, she told fans in a letter that she had been “living with heartbreak again.”

The 28-year-old entertainer and the music exec, who was 17 years her senior, had been linked for years. The last photos we have of them together are from 2023.

In a new interview, Lorde is seemingly confirming the split.

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“I went through a breakup,” she told Rolling Stone. “It was so painful, as they are, but there was real dignity to it and grace and a lot of respect. It continues to be a relationship that I cherish.”

“I had this feeling that I had never been alone. There’d always been someone, not even necessarily a romantic partner. And often that was an older person. I was always choosing someone to be God. It was a pattern I found myself repeating. I think because of leaving home so young and not quite being ready to be on my own. But I had this very acute sense that I needed to be alone to really meet myself,” she added.

She told the mag that learning to be alone was “really f-king difficult,” but eventually, she embraced it.

It has been reported that Lorde and Justin first met in 2009 when she was signed to Universal Music, but they weren’t romantically linked until 2016.

Lorde will be headed out on tour in the fall to support her new album Virgin.