Matty Healy’s Dating History Proves He Loves Fellow Singers: Halsey, Taylor Swift and More

Halsey

Matty and the “Without Me” singer were first linked in 2015 after she attend a The 1975 show. Halsey went on to collaborate on the band’s song “Ghosts,” but seemed to shoot down speculation that they were a serious in an interview with Billboard later that year.

“We’re both attracted to characters, and we saw that in each other. I spent a lot of time watching him and he spent a lot of time loving being watched. But if you think he’s the first red-wine-drinking, pretty-boy rocker in skinny jeans I’ve been associated with, you’re out of your f–king mind,” she told the publication.

Fans speculated that Halsey’s song “Colors” from her 2015 album Badlands was about Matty. It contained the lyrics, “Your little brother never tells you but he loves you so / You said your mother only smiled on her TV show.” Matty’s mom Denise Welch is a cohost on the British daytime talk show Loose Women, and he has a younger brother, Louis.

However, Halsey later played coy regarding who the song was about during an appearance on SiriusXM’s show “Hit Bound” in 2016.

“My song ‘Colors’ is about being in a relationship with someone and kind of watching the vibrancy slowly start to leak out of them, watch the colors start to fade, whether they’re falling victim to drugs or falling victim to work or any sort of negative behavior that’s kind of taking them away from the bright and lively person that they used to be,” she explained.

Matty dealt with a ​four year heroin addiction starting on and off in 2014, which he spoke about in a 2018 interview with Billboard.

Gabriella Brooks

The singer dated the model for four years from 2015 through 2019. Gabriella shared several selfies alongside Matty on her Instagram account during that time.

The London-born beauty reportedly dumped Matty over his partying habits and seemed to allude to issues with it in a 2020 interview with The Guardian.

“My 20s was f–king chaos and I didn’t live a domestic life so there are lots of things I’ve just not learned. I’m not emotionally very mature,” she said at the time.

Gabriella added, “There have been times when it does damage my relationship and I ask myself: ‘Why do I value my career so much?’ I’m trying to relinquish that idea. I want to have a period in my life when I’m not conflicted about it.” She began dating actor Liam Hemsworth in December 2019.

FKA Twigs

Matty went Instagram official with the “Cellophane” singer in February 2020, sharing a photo together at the NME Awards. The duo was spotted together the month prior at RuPaul’s DragCon UK event.

The pair split in July 2022 and fans have speculated that The 1975’s song “I’m In Love With You” – released in September 2022 – was about Twigs.

Taylor Swift

The pair was first linked in 2014 when she wore a T-shirt with his band’s name. “We exchanged numbers. Let’s see what happens,” Matty told Australia’s “Shazam Top 20″ that year.

In a 2016 interview with Q magazine, the “Somebody Else” singer discussed how strange it was to get attention from being linked to Taylor.

“I don’t do anything else, right, so it doesn’t leave a lot of room for me going out or shagging someone. So, the one time I did have a flirtation with a girl it ends up going everywhere,” he explained, referring to Taylor. “I mean, I got on E! News and people were like, ‘Who’s Matt Healy?’ So that was cool.”

“But I didn’t make a big deal out of it myself,” Matty continued. “It’s not really anything to talk about, because if she wasn’t Taylor Swift we wouldn’t be talking about her. She wasn’t a big impact on my life. It’s just interesting to me how interested the world is about Taylor Swift.”

Matty seemed to deny being in a relationship with the “Anti-Hero” singer, adding, “If I had gone out with Taylor Swift I would’ve been, ‘F–king hell! I am NOT being Taylor Swift’s boyfriend.’”

The two were linked again in 2023 following Taylor’s split from boyfriend of six years, Joe Alwyn. They were spotted holding hands in New York City in May 2023 and he attended several of Taylor’s Eras tour concerts. However, a month later their flirtation was over. “They had fun together, but it was never serious,” a source told Us Weekly at the time. ​The “Willow” songstress began dating boyfriend Travis Kelce by August 2023.

Gabriette Bechtel

Matty and the model were seen holding hands in September 2023. The pair were photographed together in February 2024, attending his mom Denise’s play The Gap in Manchester, England. They coordinated in black outfits and Matty appeared clean-shaven with a sleek new hairstyle.