Talk about a bad day! It's been a year since Elizabeth Olsen and Boyd Holbrook called off their engagement and ended their relationship, and although the couple never made it down the aisle, Holbrook said that the abrupt ending to his relationship with the "Avengers: Age of Ultron" actress felt like a divorce.
The 34-year-old actor recounted his heartbreaking split with his ex-fiancée during an interview with Man of the World Magazine, in issue No. 14. Holbrook claimed that Olsen dumped him on the same day his best friend died.
"On the same day that my best friend died, I got a call from my girl to tell me it was over," he recalled, via the Daily Mail, without mentioning Olsen's name. The "Narcos" and "Hatfields & McCoys" actor said his breakup was more like a "divorce."
Holbrook and Olsen began dating in 2012 after meeting on the set of their film "Very Good Girls." The two became engaged in March 2014 after the actor proposed during a vacation in Paris. In January, media began speculating that the pair had ended their relationship after Olsen was spotted without her engagement ring, Us Weekly reported.
Neither Boyd nor Elizabeth's reps would confirm their engagement or their breakup. After their split, Olsen was rumored to be dating her "I Saw The Light" co-star, Tom Hiddleston.
Along with his breakup, Holbrook was mourning the loss of his best friend, New York-based photographer David Armstrong, who died in October 2014 at the age of 60 from liver cancer.
"David was the first person in my life to encourage me," Holbrook said. "He told me to do everything I wanted to do. No one had ever done that before. He was a very important figure in my life. [An] important figure is not even close to what he was."
In the months that followed, Holbrook revealed that he "was consumed with my own personal depression, my own personal scenario at the time." It took a motorcycle trip up the Chilean coast to make the actor snap put off his depression and find a new perspective on his life.
"What happened over the course of the journey was that I started noticing the different types of trees," he said. "I started noticing beauty, the details."
As for as his acting career, Holbrook said he would like to do "something that's completely alien" to him. Adding, "I want to escape from my own skin so bad you have no idea. It crawls."
