From admitting they could “go without” it, to sharing their self-imposed six months of celibacy, see what these stars have said about going through dry spells

While some celebrities choose to keep their romantic lives under lock and key, these famous faces aren’t afraid to get real about their sex lives — or lack thereof. From Julia Fox admitting she could “go without” sex, to Orlando Bloom’s self-imposed six months of celibacy, here’s a look at celebrities who have opened up about their dry spells.

Kristin Cavallari.
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While the Hills alumna says she tried out the Nashville dating scene following her divorce from Jay Cutler in 2020 — she’s over it. “I would consider myself to be a monk at this point,” she said during an interview with Entertainment Tonight. “You can throw anything at me at me, and I’m like, ‘OK.’”

Rihanna.

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In 2016, Rihanna told Ellen DeGeneres that her dry spell wasn’t by choice — but her busy schedule left little time to “entertain a steady relationship or anything serious, or even a text.” “I’m single right now, and it’s not that I’m like, ‘Pro-single, yes, I hate men,’” the Fenty mogul said. “I just think that I just have so much on my plate.”

Andrew Garfield.

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Andrew Garfield has no regrets about his six-month stint without sex. For his role in Martin Scorsese’s Silence, the award-winning actor went method and spent a year studying Catholicism and shadowing a real-life Jesuit priest in New York.

“I had an incredibly spiritual experience. I did a bunch of spiritual practices every day, I created new rituals for myself. I was celibate for six months,” he recalled while on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast.

“It was very cool, man,” said Garfield, adding that there was also plenty of praying and meditating. “I had some pretty wild, trippy experiences from starving myself of sex and food for that period of time. … It gives you some gifts, for sure.”