Zendaya Reveals When She Fell For Tom Holland: ‘I Knew That This Is My Person’

Zendaya has fielded countless personal questions while promoting her new film The Drama – thanks in no small part to persistent speculation that she and her long-time partner Tom Holland, recently tied the knot in person.

While she didn’t confirm the rumours during her latest interview, Zendaya did open up about how she wound up falling for her Spider-Man co-star.

The Euphoria star vividly detailed the moment during an episode of The New York Times podcast Modern Love, published on Wednesday.

After fellow The Drama actor Robert Pattinson finished arguing there’s often fear involved during breakups or an initial attraction, Zendaya added: “I think sometimes, at least in my personal experience, I found that, you know sometimes people can get kind of nervous around people? But there’s a certain feeling that I was able to experience when I knew that this is my person, because I didn’t.

“I don’t feel nervous around them, I feel really peaceful and I feel really calm, and I feel like, ‘Oh, I actually feel more nervous when I’m away from you than when I’m with you’. And that’s when I was like, ‘Ah, that’s a good sign, that’s me listening to my intuition or body’.”

Zendaya and Tom were believed to have been dating off and on for around a decade before getting engaged in late 2024.

They first met during a chemistry read for the Marvel movie Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2017, which aptly went on to star Zendaya as the romantic interest of Tom’s titular superhero character.

She also shared during the podcast that Tom had made her “feel calm” during the audition.

When asked how he did it, Zendaya said: “Just by being a nice person, you know? By making me feel comfortable.

“I mean it’s like, having to do a chemistry read for a big movie like that is – you really want the job and all these kinds of things. And yeah, he was really lovely then.”

Whether or not she and Tom have already tied the knot, as her longtime stylist and friend Law Roach alleged last month, remains unconfirmed.

Zendaya did note on the podcast, however, she does try to share her life with fans – but also keeps some things to herself.

“I just feel like for me, there is this level of a parasocial investment in my personal relationship,” she said. “I do know that I’m a public person, and so is he, and I’m also aware that we’ve grown up in front of people, and we’ve done movies where we fall in love with each other.”

“So I really do understand that, and I don’t want to dismiss that like, ‘Stay out of my business’ or whatever,” the Emmy winner continued.

“But in a lot of ways I also am a very private person — and I try my best to be able to have things for myself and for him as well.”

Watch Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s full New York Times podcast conversation here.