I’ve seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags.

Gershon’s remark reflects a show-business superstition: publicizing a romance—especially through interviews and staged photos—can invite scrutiny, gossip, and pressure that destabilize the relationship. The “jinx” language frames celebrity culture as a kind of curse, where attention itself becomes corrosive. Her punchline about being photographed together suggests that once a couple is publicly branded, the relationship can turn into a narrative managed by tabloids and publicists rather than by the partners. The quote also implies a strategy of privacy as self-protection: keeping intimacy off the record preserves autonomy and reduces the performative demands that fame imposes on personal life.