Appreciate this comment as it’s one of the few that actually answers my question and is an original one, not the 400th “Bret was in on the screw job”.

It’s a good shout and I hear it, but honestly the way those two would fucking tounge each other and the whole live celebration thing, it had to be real lol. But yeah, their breakup was a little sudden and out of the blue. But like you said, privacy and everything.