Outlander’s Caitriona Balfe Addresses Downside of Fans Romantically Linking Her to Sam Heughan: ‘Just Taints It’

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Calling out the issue. After recently welcoming her first child with husband Tony McGill, Caitriona Balfe opened up about keeping her personal life private from a small group of Outlander fans.“When you have a kid, you become really protective.

I don’t want those crazies — because that’s what they are — I just don’t want them talking about him,” Balfe, 41, detailed during an interview with Vanity Fair on Thursday, January 6. “It’s sad, because you meet the loveliest people who are fans of the show and they’re super supportive and they do the nicest things — and then you have that little thing, which just taints it.”The profile piece details how Balfe found out that some fans have harassed the secretary of the church where her wedding took place because they questioned the legitimacy of her marriage.

The Golden Globe nominee also discovered that private investigators were hired in order to find out if she was secretly linked to her costar Sam Heughan.Balfe’s comments come after she shocked followers when she returned to social media to announce a new addition to her family.“I’ve been off socials for a while as I was taking some time to enjoy cooking up this little human,” the model, who tied the knot with McGill, 45, in 2019, wrote alongside a black-and-white photo of her son via Instagram in August 2021. “We are so grateful for this little soul … that he chose us to be his parents.”At the time, the Money Monster star gushed about becoming a new mom, writing, “I’m in awe of him already and can’t help stare and wonder at all the possibilities of who he will become, where he will go and what he’ll do on the big adventure of his life.