When it comes to his next great romance, Lukas Gage plans to keep things to himself.
“I don’t think everything should be such an exhibition for the world,” Gage, 30, exclusively told Us Weekly on September 23 in anticipation for his upcoming book, I Wrote This for Attention.
“I think some things should be kept for you and be a little more personal,” he continued. “And yeah, I just think there’s some things [that] should be sacred and that’s OK that I wasn’t — I was very in people’s faces in my last relationship. Maybe for the next one, we’ll just keep it a little more quiet.”
Gage was famously married to Chris Appleton after a whirlwind romance. The pair got engaged just one month after they first sparked relationship rumors back in February 2023. Months later, in April, the former couple said “I do” during a wedding officiated by Kim Kardashian.
Lukas Gage has no ill will towards ex-husband Chris Appleton — or his new literary venture. “Lukas has moved on,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, August 12, of Gage, 30, and Appleton’s dynamic post-split. “And it’s water under [the] bridge at this stage.” During a recent appearance on TMZ, Gage made a […]
After nearly seven months of marriage, Appleton filed for divorce from Gage. The pair reached a divorce settlement in June 2024.
Gage revisits his short-lived marriage to Appleton — as well as various other highs and lows throughout this life — in his new memoir I Wrote This for Attention, out on Tuesday, October 14.
“The book is inspired from my many journals I kept as a kid, where I wrote about a lot of things that I never shared with anybody else,” he previously teased to Us. “In this book, I start talking about it, and you can see why sometimes it felt safer not to.”
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While Gage went on to reiterate to Us that he certainly plans to “keep it more low-key on the second marriage,” he doesn’t have regrets about his making his private life so public —especially in his memoir, where he is able to, at times, laugh at what he also considers to be the darkest moments of his life.
“You have to [laugh],” he explained to Us. “I think that’s a coping mechanism. And also, like, some wild s*** happens, but it’s also not that wild — it’s universal. Like, people can connect with some of this dark stuff that has happened to me. And I think, you know, I made light of it.”
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He continued, “I always have humility with all things in my life, but, in reality, like that moment there was, you know, there was a trial and error with medications that I was on and being misdiagnosed. What comes with that, sometimes, is a manic, hyper mania going on. And yeah, it was a very impulsive, wild time. But suddenly, when I put things into perspective and I got on the right dosage, and I, you know, got my mind clear, it just made sense that I made some of the decisions that I made, and they weren’t great, but, like I said earlier — no regrets, because maybe I wouldn’t have figured it out.”
The actor is aware that finding humor in the darkness isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, telling Us that he knows “a lot of people thought I was making [a] joke or making light of” difficult situations, including the end of his marriage.
“And of course, in a way, I was, you know?” he added. “Like, you have to make light of some of the dark moments.”
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