Kylie Jenner’s ex-boyfriend Tyga has been dating Riverdale actress Madelaine Petsch for about a month.
The 35-year-old Rack City rapper and 30-year-old actress have been seeing each other after a friendship-turned-romantic according to TMZ on Wednesday.
Sources for the publication claim that the two had been close for a while but got amorous about a month ago.
The insiders say that the new couple are saying that their relationship is new and that they are enjoying their time together.
Last week the two were spotted together at celeb-favorite Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood as they attended Vanity Fair and Instagram’s Vanities Party.
It is an interesting time for Tyga to get in a relationship as he announced the death of his mom, Pasionaye Nguyen, last month.
Kylie Jenner ‘s ex-boyfriend Tyga has been dating Riverdale actress Madelaine Petsch for about a month according to TMZ on Wednesday; the two are seen at the Vanity Fair and Instagram Celebrate Vanities: A Night for Young Hollywood party at Bar Marmont on Wednesday, February 26
The new relationship comes eight years after he and the make-up mogul split; Tyga and Kylie seen in 2016
It is an interesting time for Tyga to get in a relationship as he announced the death of his mom, Pasionaye Nguyen, last month
Madelaine has a surprising link to Kylie as she previously modeled for Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS shapewear line back in September 2023
The rapper’s relationship with Madelaine comes eight years after he and the make-up mogul Kylie Jenner split.
The Strangers: Chapter 1 star has a surprising link to Kylie as she previously modeled for Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS shapewear line back in September 2023.
‘When I wear SKIMS I feel sexy and comfortable,’ said Madelaine, who hails from Washington state, at the time.
Madelaine is best known for her starring role as Cheryl Blossom in The CW’s Riverdale for seven seasons up until its finale in August 2023.
As mentioned previously, the unlikely duo attended the Vanity Fair and Instagram Celebrate Vanities: A Night for Young Hollywood party at Bar Marmont on Wednesday, February 26.
Tyga and Madelaine looked cozy while posing together inside of the star-studded event after gracing the red carpet solo.
Before the event, Madelaine — who looked sultry in a sheer dress — linked arms with the Compton native as they left the party venue in West Hollywood.
One week earlier, Tyga and Madelaine attended a Lakers game together at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Wednesday, February 19.
One week before their outing in West Hollywood, Tyga and Madelaine attended a Lakers game together at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Wednesday, February 19
‘When I wear SKIMS I feel sexy and comfortable,’ said Madelaine, who hails from Washington state, at the time of working with Kim back in 2023
They were spotted sitting courtside as they watched the home team beat the Charlotte Hornets.
Madelaine was noticeably dress down in jeans, a leather jacket and her eyeglasses as Tyga’s gaze remained fixed on the game.
But it wasn’t until photos from the Vanity Fair party surfaced online that fans of both Tyga and Madelaine began reacting to the pairing.
‘Tyga and Madelaine Petsch was not on my 2025 bingo card,’ penned one shocked X (formerly Twitter) user on Wednesday.
Others jokingly warned Tyga to ‘stay away’ from Madelaine due to his complex dating history.
Tyga has dated a number of high-profile celebrities and he’s also a father-of-two.
Most famously, Tyga began dating Kylie Jenner, 28, in 2015 after being introduced to one another at her big sister Kendall’s 16th birthday party in 2011.
They claimed for years that they were ‘just friends’ as their seven-year age gap raised eyebrows.
Tyga insisted during a radio show in February 2015 that he and Jenner, who was 17 at the time, were ‘not dating.’
But months later, the couple — often referred to as ‘Kyga’ — went public with their controversial age-gap romance in August 2015 after Kylie’s 18th birthday.
Tyga and Madelaine looked cozy while posing together inside of the star-studded event after gracing the red carpet solo
One week earlier, Tyga and Madelaine attended a Lakers game together at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Wednesday, February 19
However, Kylie and Tyga briefly broke up in late 2015 amid rumors that the rapper had been unfaithful.
But they got back together soon after and Kylie said in a Complex interview in 2016 that she ‘just needed to see what it was like not being with’ Tyga.
‘We realized that wasn’t what we wanted,’ she said.
In April 2017, Kylie and Tyga parted ways for good.
The makeup mogul spoke highly of the rapper as she addressed the split on her E! spin-off show Life Of Kylie.
‘There was absolutely not one thing wrong with me and T. He and I will always, always have a bond. There was no crazy fight, we just decided …Well, I decided that I’m really young. I don’t want to look back in five years from now and feel like he took something from me when he’s really not that type of person,’ she explained.
Tyga’s controversial relationship with Kylie began one year after he called it quits with rapper Blac Chyna, with whom he shares 12-year-old son King Cairo. They dated from 2011 to 2014.
His romance with teenage Kylie caused a major rift between himself and Chyna, who went on to date and welcome a child, daughter Dream, with Kylie’s older half-brother Rob Kardashian in 2016.
Tyga’s Kardashian-Jenner connections don’t stop there as he was also previously married to Instagram model Jordan Craig.
Craig shares a son, seven, with basketball player Tristan Thompson, who is Kylie’s older half-sister Khloe Kardashian’s baby daddy.
But it wasn’t until photos from the Vanity Fair and Instagram party surfaced online that fans of both Tyga and Madelaine began reacting to the pairing
As for his most recent dating history, Tyga was last linked to pop-punk singer Avril Lavigne.
The pair dated for nearly four months in 2023 after Avril called off her engagement to the musician Mod Sun.
Tyga and Avril were photographed together all around Los Angeles and Las Vegas during their whirlwind romance that came to an end in June 2023.
As for Madelaine, the Washington-born stunner was last in a relationship with Anthony Li, who is Halsey’s manager.
The pair were friends for nine years before making things romantic in February 2023.
In honor of their first anniversary in 2024, Madelaine posted several photos of her and Anthony packing on the PDA before sharing a screenshot of one of their text exhcanged.
‘How do i [sic] say i’m celebrating 10 years of knowing you today without confusing the internet,’ Madelaine texted, to which her then-boyfriend replied: ‘Say ‘finally let this one bust out the friendzone and i’ve never been happier !!!! !!!!!!!!!’
While it’s unclear when they split, Madelaine shared photos of herself crying to close out 2024 on Instagram and even spent Valentine’s Day 2025 with her gal pals.
Before Anthony, Madelaine had a three-year relationship with MTV Ghosted host Travis Mills, 35.
They dated from 2017 before splitting in February 2020 just before COVID-19 lockdown.
She reflected on the breakup in a 2021 interview with Flaunt as she admitted that her ‘mental health was at an all time low’ when she and Mills ended things.
Tyga previously dated Kylie Jenner from 2015 to 2017; the pair seen in October 2015
Before Kylie, Tyga dated and welcomed a child with Blac Chyna; the exes seen in 2014
Before her most recent boyfriend Anthony Li, Madelaine had a three-year relationship with Ghosted host Travis Mills, 35; the exes seen in 2018
Madelaine said it was a ‘challenging’ time and that she began doing to therapy to grapple with the intense emotions she was feeling.
Every day was definitely a challenge and therapy was absolutely key for me to keep sane,’ she told the outlet.
‘My best friend moved in with me and that was a huge game changer for my mental health. I found ways to be creative while staying positive and reading books.’
She confessed it took her ‘probably five months through this whole pandemic to get back to an okay mental state.’
