Sabrina Carpenter Was Once ‘Convinced’ Paul McCartney Was Her ‘Future Husband’

Paul McCartney has been married to wife Nancy Shevell since 2011. But there was a time when Sabrina Carpenter thought she might have had a chance with the “Hey Jude” musician.

In an interview on the December 12 episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbertthe “Espresso” singer recalled hearing a certain Beatles song as a child and falling “in love” with McCartney.

“When I was very, very young, my dad played me ‘Rocky Raccoon’ for the first time, and I was so fascinated by that song and the songwriting of it all that I fell in love with Paul McCartney,” said Carpenter, 25 .by the 82-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member.

“I was convinced it was my husband, my future husband,” she added. “But he was quite old and I was so young. I didn’t realize he was much older than me because I was looking at all these pictures.”

At the time, Carpenter thought McCartney was “young” and “only 10 years older than me.”

“I didn’t understand math,” she laughed. “I was a child.”

Earlier this year, Carpenter got the chance to meet McCartney at the 2024 MusiCares Person of the Year ceremony honoring Jon Bon Jovi ahead of the recent Grammy Awards, and they posed for a photo together.

“It just brought tears to my eyes and he was just so normal and relaxed and was so charming,” recalled Short n’ Sweet musician. “It felt like I stepped into an alternate universe… like Upside Down vibes? Like Stranger Thingsbut much happier than Stranger Things.”

Carpenter added that she felt McCartney made the entire room of people feel “seen and heard.”

In an interview with Vogue Arabia announced earlier this week, the former child star revealed that she made her own Spotify Wrapped list of top artists this year with her hit “Espresso.”

“It’s funny because when I first saw mine, my first reaction was, ‘Oh hell, I can’t write that because I’m on my own list. It’s kind of conceited,'” Carpenter told the outlet.

“Then I thought it’s a good thing that I’m on my list and I’m listening to my own music, because it means I’m f—ing with what I’m doing,” she said. “But the others were Dolly Parton, ABBA, Kacey Musgraves and the Bee Gees.”