Omar Apollo Gets Frank About Ex-Boyfriend: 'I Begged' To Get Back 'For Two Years'

Omar Apollo talks with Bruce LaBruce for BUTT magazine.

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Omar Apollo has now revealed more details about his still unidentified but heavily rumored ex-boyfriend, elaborating on their intense breakup from 2022 and being even more frank about how he's dealt with his own feelings over the years.

"I've had lovers, but not a relationship," Apollo told Bruce LaBruce when asked about his dating status in a new interview for Butt magazine. "I haven't had, like, a full love situation, no boyfriend-boyfriend thing, since 2022."

And yet, after successfully dodging questions that would identify his ex, Apollo shared more details about how he navigated that breakup and dealt with his own feelings. "I made a whole sad-ass album with no resolve about that situation," the singer explained. "When you perform these songs over and over again, they get locked into your body, and then you're just living in sadness. I don't want to live like that anymore."

Apollo recalled trying to get back with his ex "for two years," adding: "I begged and begged and begged. No shame whatsoever. And I still don't have shame. At all. Like, you know what? That's how I was feeling!"

LaBruce asked Apollo how it feels to perform "songs from that album now." Even though the project wasn't brought up by name, it's worth noting that Apollo's debut studio album, Ivory, was released in April 2022 — the same year when, according to the singer himself, that relationship ended.

"It's getting better," Apollo replied. "But, like, for example, when I was co-headlining at Madison Square Garden, a minute before my set, I was crying on the floor of the bathroom. This went on and on and on. I had to do shows, shows, shows, make money here, make money there. It fucked me up."

Apollo also spoke about making new music, though he was similarly cryptic about it. Of note, the singer revealed that he's recorded "hundreds of songs" he did "without thinking," but that he won't necessarily use them for a new album. But he is going to do another album? LaBruce asked.

"Yeah, of course," Apollo said in the interview. "But the past three years have been too much. I grew up with this urgency, the survival instinct, that lasted too long. But now I don't need to just survive, and the sense of urgency has finally died down. I'm able to think and have way more integrity and intention with what I'm doing."

Apollo concluded, "I can make music all day, but I want it to mean something. I want it to have depth. I want it to live longer than me. And that takes time. I can't just be touring — like, what am I gonna write about?"

This full interview with Omar Apollo is featured on issue No. 37 of Butt magazine. Apollo's sophomore studio album, God Said No, is available on all music streaming services.