Sydney Sweeney clarifies rumours she never actually worked at Universal Studios

Sydney Sweeney has clarified reports about whether she worked as a tour guide at Universal Studios after it was speculated that she’d never worked at the theme park.

The actress first opened up about the job during a Women’s Health interview in November 2023, in which she detailed the beginning of her career. In the interview, the Anyone But You actress discussed watching her parents go bankrupt and detailed the various jobs she took in order to help her family with the bills, one of them being a tour guide at Universal Studios.

“I watched my parents lose a lot. We filed for bankruptcy, and they lost their house back home on the lake. We couldn’t afford life in LA,” Sweeney said in the interview.

In future interviews, Sweeney was asked about her time at Universal but never directly addressed it. For example, when she was asked about her theme park job on The Kelly Clarkson Show, she said, “I was a huge theme park person, my family and friends would go to Universal all the time.”

Then, on her episode of Hot Ones, she added she “memorised” the studio tour and was able to “recite their entire script”. When the host asked her what her favourite tour guide memory was, she slipped into telling the story of being a struggling actor and budgeting instead, and did not answer the question directly.

“I was there for a bit, and then actually booked Sharp Objects,” Sweeney told the host.

Many people went on to comment on that video, which resurfaced on TikTok, that they were Universal tour guides themselves and could confirm that Sweeney had never actually worked there.