Chris Olsen & Meghan Trainor's Friendship Is "Deeper" Than a Work Bond

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TikTok Star Chris Olsen Shares His Coming Out Journey

When it comes to his relationship with Meghan Trainor, Chris Olsen isn't lyin,' lyin', lyin' astir however adjacent they are. 

The singer, 29, and the societal media star, 25, person go a fixture connected TikTok For You Pages, rocking retired to her deed "Made You Look" and hanging retired with her hubby Daryl Sabara and 2-year-old son Riley.

Still, fans' lips are movin' and speculating that Chris was hired by Meghan to assistance her with her TikTok. And now, he's offering immoderate clarity connected the rumors.

"We became friends earlier each of this, earlier determination were immoderate suspicions oregon earlier we ever started moving with each different and worldly similar that," Chris told E! News successful an exclusive interview. "It's each based connected this existent relationship that we have."

It's not similar Meghan and Chris person wholly shied distant from the topic. She brought it up connected a June occurrence of her podcast Workin' On It—telling listeners, "We paid him. We're like, 'Please beryllium connected the team.' He's connected the payroll." Chris adjacent joked successful a recent video about Meghan renewing his declaration "so we tin beryllium friends again."

But ultimately, Chris says, their bond grew organically. "We did the podcast together, and past we made immoderate TikToks, and past we were like, 'Should we proceed doing this, making TikToks together?'" helium continued. "And you know, she wanted america to benignant of enactment unneurotic successful that mode alternatively than conscionable person it beryllium this one-time thing."

Still, Chris is assured they'd beryllium joined astatine the hep adjacent if they hadn't had these enactment discussions.

"I deliberation careless of if we ever had the speech of moving together, we inactive would beryllium hanging retired the mode that we do," helium added. "I genuinely emotion her. I've gone connected abrogation with her household now, and we're astir to spell connected different abrogation together. So, it's decidedly overmuch deeper than a moving relationship."

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And whether it's for enactment oregon play, they bask spending clip together.

"But we besides person a batch of amusive making TikToks together," Chris noted. "Promoting 'Made You Look' erstwhile that full happening started and erstwhile she had finished the opus and decided to enactment it retired into the satellite was specified a amusive happening to bash unneurotic arsenic well. So yeah, we're friends first, and I emotion her, and I emotion her family, and I emotion Riley—who's the cutest kid ever—and I can't hold for the adjacent kid to travel arsenic well."

Meghan announced successful January that she and Daryl are expecting their 2nd kid together, telling E! News how Chris supported her done what was a hard archetypal trimester arsenic days of bleeding had her worried she was experiencing a chemic pregnancy.

"She shared that she thought she was large and past we thought she whitethorn not be," helium recalled. "It wasn't similar a infinitesimal wherever it was conscionable like, 'I'm pregnant' and you're truly excited. There was a batch of question marks astir it. But past erstwhile we really recovered retired and it was thing that she was beauteous assured about, past it was truly exciting."

Through it all, Chris offered Meghan a enarthrosis to thin on. "I was conscionable determination for her nary substance what," helium shared. "I was like, 'Whether oregon not different babe is coming, we're going to beryllium OK. Good things are going to travel nary substance what.' I'm truthful excited for her and Daryl due to the fact that I cognize they truly wanted this, and I deliberation Riley's going to beryllium the champion large member ever."

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Support is what Chris and Meghan person fixed each different ever since they archetypal connected connected societal media and shared their archetypal video unneurotic past April. (So no, arsenic helium confirmed to Entertainment Tonight, they haven't known each different since childhood).

"It's comic due to the fact that radical person said to me, 'Ever since you and Meghan started hanging out, she's gotten truthful funny.' And I'm like, 'No, no, no, no. She has ever been truthful funny,'" helium told E! News. "I deliberation conscionable present she's showing it connected the app, and we're sharing ourselves with the satellite successful a antithetic way. I deliberation that's wherever I ever onshore whenever I'm talking astir TikTok with radical is if you stock yourself successful a mode that you consciousness blessed astir and a mode that you consciousness comfy with, past you tin lone win. As agelong arsenic you're being authentic, past radical are going to person that successful the mode that they bash and there's nary 1 amended astatine being you than you." 

Chris said Meghan has taught him a fewer things astir societal media, too—like however to woody with immoderate haters.

"There are times that I inactive conflict with speechmaking comments oregon seeing antagonistic things connected the net astir myself, and she's been truly adjuvant successful those moments," helium said. "She's been connected the receiving extremity of that a batch too, and that doesn't specify you arsenic agelong arsenic you're being authentic to yourself. And I deliberation proceeding worldly similar that from her—from idiosyncratic who knows and has been successful this manufacture for truthful long—is truly adjuvant due to the fact that I cognize she's speaking from her ain experience."

Give them that title, title: BFFs.

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Meghan isn't the lone personage Chris knows. In fact, he's rubbed elbows with rather a fewer stars—including JoJo Siwa, Ashley Tisdale and Austin Butler—through his viral java transportation videos connected TikTok. And now, the contented creator has his precise ain java brand, Flight Fuel, consisting of legume blends, acold brew concentrates and accessories.

"It's been 2 years of doing this small bit," Chris said astir the series. "And so, a twelvemonth into it—when I realized that it was inactive thing that radical loved watching and that was truly becoming a portion of my marque connected TikTok—I was like, I privation determination to beryllium a mode that much radical tin beryllium a portion of this. People kept saying like, 'Can you present java to your fans? I would emotion that.' And portion I can't present it to each azygous fan, I felt similar this would beryllium a cleanable mode to benignant of assistance bring radical into the spot and person radical beryllium a portion of it."

As for a prima who's inactive connected his imagination java transportation list? "Everyone successful my comments conception wants maine to beryllium capable to someway present to Harry Styles astatine immoderate point, and I would emotion to bash that too," helium said. "And truthful I conscionable support that imagination open. You know, nothing's impossible."

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