NEED TO KNOW
- Tommy Lee and Brittany Furlan are “not separated or divorced” following the catfish saga that unfolded on social media in May 2025
- On Saturday, July 19, Lee cleared up the split rumors by sharing a couple selfie on Instagram with a caption about “fake news”
- The rocker’s denial came after the pair allegedly spent some time apart, a source previously told PEOPLE
Tommy Lee is shutting down rumors that he and Brittany Furlan have split.
On Saturday, July 19, the Mötley Crüe rocker, 62, shared a selfie with Furlan, 38, on Instagram that marked the couple’s first public feed post together since May’s catfish saga unfolded. Split rumors arose when Furlan revealed that she had been seduced by a catfish posing as musician Ronnie Radke.
Having gone relatively quiet on his social media in the wake of the drama, Lee is now confirming the catfish saga hasn’t torn their marriage apart.
“Hey fake news,” the rocker wrote in the caption of his latest Instagram post. “We’re not separated or divorced!! Get your s— together!! 🤣.”
Just a few hours earlier, Furlan had also nodded to the couple’s relationship status with a post of her own. The former Vine star shared a video depicting two silhouettes — seemingly hers and Lee’s — sharing a kiss on Instagram Stories.
The couple’s public reconciliation comes after Furlan shared several vaguely inspirational posts — including a July 19 video about overcoming “darkness” and moving out of a “lowest point.”
Meanwhile, Lee took an Instagram hiatus except for a couple of nature-related posts.
The alleged tension between Lee and Furlan — who met on celebrity dating app Raya in 2017 and got married in 2019 — kicked off in May. At the time, the comedian shared a since-deleted TikTok where she admitted to exchanging Snapchat messages with someone she believed to be Falling In Reverse frontman Radke during a “tough time” in her six-year marriage.
“Basically, I told my husband everything,” Furlan said of messaging the Snapchat user she believed to be Radke. “I said, you know, ‘I’ve been talking to whoever I thought this was on Snapchat — he says it’s not him, cool, whatever — ‘cause I’m a good person. I mean, I’m not a good person for talking to someone while married. I’ve been going through a lot in my marriage. No excuse, whatever.”
The video came after Radke claimed that Furlan was catfished by someone pretending to be him in a series of Instagram Stories posts. Radke also alleged that Lee had threatened him over the situation, a claim Furlan backed up in her video.
“I come clean to my husband, my husband freaks out, messages [Radke],” the podcaster said in the since-deleted TikTok, adding that “that’s how this all started.”
Lawyers were involved on both sides, according to posts from Radke and Furlan.
Around the same time, a TMZ report alleged that Lee and Furlan had been living apart amid concerns over Lee’s alleged drinking behavior. The Mötley Crüe rocker publicly nodded to the ongoing drama in his marriage in a since-deleted Instagram post that read: “Who’s been catfished?”
The PEOPLE App is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more!
Shortly after the catfish saga unfolded on social media, a source close to the couple told PEOPLE that the pair were taking some time apart. The insider also said that prior to the very public exchanges between the pair and Radke, Lee and Furlan’s relationship was already “drama, drama, drama.”
A relationship status update came in early June, when Furlan revealed that the May drama ultimately made her and her rocker husband closer.
“All of this happening has weirdly brought us together, which is really strange,” she said on her This Is the Worst podcast. “I think we really faced like, ‘Oh, what would life really be like without each other?’ ”
Read the full article here
