Being the powerhouse that it was, a TV show based around friendship, Sex and The City is one of very few shows that invokes great emotion from its cult following. Even those who aren’t fans of the show have been obsessed with the off-screen relationships of Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Kim Cattrall and Cynthia Nixon. That’s why despite ongoing evidence of a long-standing feud between Parker and Cattrall, people just can’t seem to let it go.
So much so that Parker has confirmed her side of the story yet again, that there is no, and ‘never has been, a catfight’. Despite this, Cattrall has been open about her disdain for Parker, stating she wishes Parker ‘would’ve been nicer’ on set in an interview with Piers Morgan, then taking to Instagram to say ‘I don’t need your love or support at this tragic time @sarahjessicaparker’ back in February when her brother died and Parker commented on an Instagram post offering condolences.
Linking out to an article in the New York Post which details how Parker excluded Cattrall on set and created a mean girls style work environment, Cattrall essentially confirmed what we all already knew, that they have never gotten along.
Yet, Parker continues to maintain that there is no fight between them, telling Vulture:
‘I’d just like to remind everybody that there is no catfight. I have never uttered an unkind, unsupportive, unfriendly word, so I would love to redefine [the situation].
‘I also want to remind everybody that there were four women on the set and I spent equal time with all of them, so this was not a set with two women who didn’t get along.’
Continuing, she detailed that she can only respect Cattrall’s decision not to make a third movie, despite being disappointed herself. Reaffirming that ‘there has never been a catfight’, she continued, ‘I’ve never fought with someone publicly in my life, nor would I.
‘We are enormously proud of what we got to do and I don’t want someone sharing thoughts publicly, which is Kim’s right to do and that is what it is, but we spent 10, 12 years of our life doing something that I really loved and I feel privileged to be part of and I don’t want this to eclipse it or change its experience for that audience that was so good to us for so long.’
Stating her intention not to let the ongoing back and forth ruin the image fans have of the franchise, Cattrall made a similar comment on her interview with Piers Morgan back in October last year. She told Morgan:
‘I think there is genuine affection and there has been over the years, but this is extenuating circumstances, and in the past, I felt, especially with the fans, I don’t want to in any shape or form ruin an ideal of it because it does stand for empowerment and women sticking up for each other, but not always.’
Well, given the ongoing tension between the two, it seems it may be too late to maintain a picture-perfect ideal of the cast. Alas, we do have these SATC facts you most likely don’t know about to ease your SATC sadness…
Click through to see every guy Carrie dated on SATC...
Every Guy Carrie Dated On Sex And The City
1 of 20Bill Sage
Our first experience of Carrie hooking up, Kurt is also Carries first experiment of having sex with no feelings. The only fabulous thing she's ever done, despite what she may think of herself, she leaves him straight after climax, not returning the favour. AN ICON.
2 of 20Cane Peterson
Carrie simply LOVES not learning her lesson to date immature men and spends a weekend flouncing around on skateboards and reading comics. There wasn't even a takeaway lesson from this one, just Carrie being a dickhead. Yet again.
3 of 20Ed Fry
This guy helped us solve the age-old dilemma – what do you do if your one-night-stand assumes you're a prostitute and leaves you $1,000. Answer? You keep it. Not your fault he's a presumptious fool.
4 of 20Patrick Breen
This long term romance, aka two episodes of Hamptons fun, saw Carrie entertain the idea of a doctor boyfriend. Of course, she crumbles to pieces seeing Big with his new girlfriend, never to see Dr Meego again. Not even for therapy, which she desperately needs.
5 of 20Richard Joseph Paul
This is the guy that gets 'addicted' to Carrie as a replacement for alcohol. Why? Who actually knows, the womans a nightmare.
6 of 20Jon Bon Jovi
In another episode of 'all the ridiculously famous men you never realized were on SATC', Bon Jovi is the living embodiment of everything Carrie does wrong in relationships. She falls for a guy in her therapist's office, where she's trying to figure out why she always chooses the wrong men, who reveals after sleeping with her that he's in therapy because he 'loses interest after sex'. Carries life summed up in one sentence.
7 of 20Eddie Cahill
In an episode that proved Carrie is about as politically aware as a fig, Sean played her bisexual boyfriend. She couldn't quite get on board with the fact that Sean was attracted to both women and men, feminist icon that she is.
8 of 20Craig Bierko
Sometimes, I swear Carrie dates men just so she can use a good metaphor to describe them. Simultaneously playing Jazz music and her, Ray fell short when he couldn't focus on her for more than 2 minutes, literally.
9 of 20David Duchovny
Taking Carries ability to understand mental health issues to that all-time low, this episode sees Carrie reunite with her high school sweetheart only to learn he's in a mental health facility. His year-long stay is what gets it for her, even though it'd probably do her some good to join him.
10 of 20Chris Noth
Love him or hate him, he's what she bloody deserves. Not the painful back and forth through 6 seasons, that's not anything you'd wish on your worst enemy, but in the end she CAN'T be with a man like Aidan. She's selfish, needy and whiny. An all round dickhead if you will. And Big is the shaft to her bellend, one cannot survive without the other.
11 of 20John Corbett
The human embodiment of a puppy dog, Aidan is Carrie's antithesis and frankly, far too good for her.
12 of 20Dean Winters
A lesson in how to choose a fuck buddy, Dean plays carries 'in-between relationships' guy. While Carrie has awful taste in dateable men, she has a rare stroke of luck with this one since he is PERFECT fuck buddy material being the most boring person on earth but good in bed. She doesn't see it that way, of course, but who expects to date their fuck buddy anyway?
13 of 20John Slattery
Exploring all the aspects of modern day relationships as it did (eye roll), this episode saw Carrie encounter a man with a golden shower fetish. TBH we don't blame her for running from this one, how the fuck are you meant to orgasm with piss all over your chest?
14 of 20Ron Livingston
The whiniest, most insecure of all men Carrie dated, Berger gave us all the tell-tale signs of men to avoid. Toxic masculinity in-carnate, Jack Berger proves that insecure men don't always throw fists to prove they've got balls, they ride SUPER FAST motorbikes because they're SUPER COOL.
15 of 20Mikhail Baryshnikov
EW. LET ME REPEAT. EW. This ridiculous, confusing choice of love interest for Carrie frankly lasted far too long for my liking. WHO, I MEAN WHOOOO moves to Paris for a man that is so patronizing, egotistical, uptight and dismissive of her career/feeling/life?? This man's demise could not come soon enough, I begrudge the entire season 6 for this sole reason.
16 of 20Timothy Olyphant
Her Mr. Big rebound who lived like an ABSOLUTE pig put us off 'twenty-something guys' before we even turned twenty.
17 of 20Vince Vaughn
Otherwise known 'Men Are Trash', Vince's character tells her he's Matt Damon's agent when he's really Carrie Fisher's personal assistant. But you know, Carrie can't move past anything ever in life so, he was a gonner after one episode.
18 of 20Bradley Cooper
Ahh a young Bradley Cooper. Somehow his long locks manage to look more grease-ball than rough around the edges on SATC. He's one of her many 'I'm fabulous but need the validation of a man to feel it' hook-ups.
19 of 20Justin Theroux (Part 1)
Playing a superficial writer, Justin was another man Carrie used to get over Mr. Big, not that he was complaining.
20 of 20Justin Theroux (Part 2)
What do you know, a season later Justin Theroux returns unrecognizable with a buzz cut. In yet another example of toxic masculinity, Vaughn can't communicate his 'shortcomings' leading what would've been a fabulous pairing into sad sad demise.