It was rejection, actually, that brought Bella Hadid and The Weeknd together. In an October 2015 Rolling Stone story, he reflected on the beginnings of their relationship, which Rolling Stone says began in April 2015. “I actually asked her to be on the artwork for “Beauty Behind the Madness,’” Tesfaye recalls. “My motive was literally to work with her.” But when she declined, “I was like, ‘All right, cool — we can meet up face-to-face.'”
