Are Megan Fox, Machine Gun Kelly Still Together 1 Year After Engagement? Update After Split Rumors

Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly have flooded headlines as Hollywood’s edgy it-couple for over a year, but are the duo still together and engaged? Breakup rumors started swirling at the end of 2022, and fans are curious whether their love is thriving or barely surviving — especially now that she removed all traces of MGK from her Instagram account in February 2023.

The pair met in March 2020 while filming a crime thriller movie, Midnight in the Switchgrass. The costars quickly began spending time together shortly after, partaking in long phone chats that Kelly said felt like five minutes.  

Keeping reading to find out Megan and MGK’s current relationship status.

When Was Megan Fox and MGK’s First Date?

“I love a dark fairytale,” The “emo girl” singer said in an interview with GQ last year.

According to the interview, the couple’s first real date involved Kelly driving the Jennifer’s Body actress in a 1974 Cadillac convertible to a cliffside picnic, complete with a blanket and roses followed by a rooftop makeout session set to pop punk music.  

In summer 2020, they were spotted on multiple occasions showing PDA around Los Angeles. 

Fox has described their relationship as “very intense” and non-traditional.

“Our souls chose this to absolutely have to face our shadow selves,” said Fox, “to face things about ourselves we didn’t want to have to know, that we tried to push away.”

When Did MGK Propose to Megan Fox?

On January 11, 2022, Kelly asked Fox to marry him in Puerto Rico, the same location where they became acquainted on the set of Midnight in the Switchgrass. Notably, Fox posted a video of the proposal to her Instagram saying that to celebrate they “drank each other’s blood.”

The actress wrote an affectionate caption about the singer in a Valentine’s Day Instagram post, in the same quasi-poetic style of her other social media uploads.  

“There goes my heart manifest outside of my body,” Fox wrote. “Happy Valentine’s Day rehab barbie.” 

Are Megan Fox and MGK Married?

While the couple is more in love than ever, Fox has reminded MGK she’s not yet his wife. The two were mislabeled while sitting courtside at an NBA all-star game on February 20, with the announcer calling Fox the “wife” of Kelly as the couple appeared on the jumbotron screen. Fox reacted by laughing and whispering the words “I’m not…” to Kelly before covering her mouth.

Machine Gun Kelly spoke about plans for the wedding in an appearance on The Late Late Show With James Corden on February 24, noting the difficulty of planning a goth wedding.

When asked about when they plan to tie the knot, Kelly said, “when they can build me a red river with like gothic– the location is hard. Trying to find a spot that’s matching my artistic [vision].” 

Are Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly Still Together?

During a red carpet appearance at the April 2022 Daily Front Row Awards, the couple sent rumors flying as the Jennifer’s Body actress appeared to snub her soon-to-be husband as he leaned in for a kiss. 

The viral footage shows an uninterested Megan appear to dodge a sweet moment with her fiancé physically. The text over the footage reads, “Megan Fox be like …” with a voiceover from HBO’s Euphoria that says, “First of all, ew. Second of all … ew.” MGK appeared to laugh off the awkward moment before hitting the red carpet with his future wife.

Megan put a stop to the ongoing split rumors when she shared a sweet tribute to her soon-to-be husband on his 32nd birthday that month.

“You’re such a gorgeous soul,” she wrote in the moving tribute, “I’m honored to love you and to be the recipient of your love.”

Her words were shared alongside a photo of the happy couple with Megan riding piggyback on MGK. 

“Today your mom told us that you were born a month early … and as a baby you were both ‘cuddly and fussy at the same time,’” Megan shared. “I couldn’t have imagined a more apt description of you,” she added, insisting that he was “meant to be a Gemini.”

“If I could get the boy who has everything something special for his birthday,” she concluded, “I would lift the veil off of their eyes so they could see what I see.”

Despite her April testimony, by August split rumors had flared up again when fans noticed MGK had been absent from Megan’s social media since June 2022. The rumors were heightened when the actress was notably missing during her fiancé's hometown concert in Cleveland, Ohio, that month.

However, the lovebirds once again put an end to breakup speculation when they were spotted together in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles in August 2022.

Once again, Megan sent breakup rumors swirling in October 2022, when she shared a series of Instagram selfies wearing several rings on her left hand, but her ring finger was bare with no sign of the diamond and emerald engagement bauble from MGK. However, days later, she and MGK both attended the TIME100Next Gala in New York City before donning multiple couples Halloween costumes later that month.

By the end of the year, the couple still appeared to be going strong when they were seen taking Megan’s kids, Noah, Bodhi and Journey, holiday shopping in December 2022, according to photos published by HollywoodLife. The Till Death actress shares her sons with ex-husband Brian Austin Green. 

However, Megan joked that she was “seeking a girlfriend” in a *very* flirty Instagram post on December 30. “Please submit applications in the DMs,” she prompted her Instagram followers in the caption.

As they rang in the new year, Megan and MGK celebrated their one-year engagement anniversary by showing off her flashy engagement ring on January 11, 2023.

“One year ago under a banyan tree,” the rocker wrote alongside a video of himself holding Megan’s hand.

Less than one month later, the couple posed for stylish photos during a pre-Grammys event in February 2023. 

“Off the plane with a broken wrist and a concussion straight to a Grammys party,” Megan captioned an Instagram carousel post at the time. 

While the duo looked fabulous as ever together, a few commenters expressed their surprise that she and MGK were still an item. 

“Booo I thought you left MGK,” one person wrote. “He's not really holding her hand, I think he's not happy, or maybe ‘cause he don't wanna hurt her hand by holding it ‘cause it's broken [sic],” another chimed in. 

Just one week later, Megan deleted all photos of MGK from her Instagram, fans noticed, and she hinted at a possible rift between them in a February 12, 2023, Instagram post. 

“You can taste the dishonesty/it’s all over your breath,” she captioned the carousel post, referring to Beyoncé’s song “Pray You Catch Me.” 

The last slide of the carousel included a video of what appeared to be Megan burning some of MGK’s belongings.