The "We Don't Talk Anymore" pair reportedly dated briefly in March 2016. In an interview with Billboard, Puth confirmed he and Gomez had a "very short-lived, very small, but very impactful" relationship, but stopped short of confirming if they were ever officially together.
"I don't kiss and tell, but the only way a song like that can come across as real is if there's something else going on behind the scenes," Puth said. He admitted that the relationship ultimately "really messed me up."
Puth said one of the reasons the relationship failed was because of someone else in Gomez's life. "I'm trying to put this the best way possible: It wasn't like I was the only person on her mind," he said, a presumed reference to Gomez's then off-and-on ex, Justin Bieber.