Kristen Stewart’s candid quotes about sexuality, coming out
Kristen Stewart infamously came out strangely in the middle of her Saturday evening live hosting debut.
“I’m a little nervous about being a host because I know the president is probably watching, and I don’t think he likes me that much,” Stewart joked in her February 2017 monologue, referring to the former president. Donald Trump disapproved of her deception Robert Pattinson. “The president is not a big fan of me, and that’s fine, because Donald, if you didn’t like me then, you probably won’t like me now. I’m so gay, dude.’
Stewart, who had previously been in a relationship Speak Co-star Michael Angarano And Twilight love interest Pattinson had never publicly revealed her sexuality during her early years in the spotlight.
“Honestly, I just thought it was funny,” she said E! News a month later. “Not to diminish the point, because I think it’s absolutely important to say things so bluntly, but at the same time the only reason I’ve never done that is because there’s an ambiguity in that and I wanted things to be real would be like that. really for me.”
She continued, “I’m so incredibly proud that so many people said, ‘Thank you,’ and I said, ‘No, thank you.’ It’s kind of a mutual, full circle.”
Since coming out, Stewart has dated people like Alicia Cargile, Saint Vincent, Soko, Stella Maxwell And Dylan Meijer. Stewart and Meyer got engaged in 2021.
Keep scrolling for more of Stewart’s candid thoughts on sexuality and coming out as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community:
August 2015
“Google me, I’m not hiding,” she joked Nylon when asked if she was dating Cargile. “I think that in three or four years there will be a lot more people who don’t feel it necessary to find out whether you are gay or straight. It’s like: just do your thing.”
May 2016
As a child actor, Stewart always felt the need to label herself in the public eye before she finally put a stop to it.
“I needed an answer about who I was,” said the Spencer actress said Variety. “I felt this strange responsibility because I didn’t want to seem scared. But nothing seemed appropriate. So I was like, ‘Fk, how do I define that?’ I’m not going to do that.”
Stewart added that “not defining” her sexuality is the epitome of “what [she’s] about,” and added, “If you don’t understand, I don’t have time for you.”
October 2016
Months earlier, Stewart confirmed her romance with Cargile before going public Elle she was “not ashamed” of dating a woman.
“I’m not confused,” she said. “Things have changed. And not just me: we can really encourage this new acceptance and be great.
The perfect match! After some notable romances over the years, Kristen Stewart found The One in Dylan Meyer. The actress started dating her Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson in 2009. Three years later, the Adventureland star had an affair with Snow White and Huntsman director Rupert Sanders. Stewart and Pattinson briefly rekindled their relationship […]
March 2017
She told me Sunday Times what she came up with SNL because “it just seemed important and timely,” and denied that she dated Pattinson out of confusion.
“I wasn’t hiding anything,” Stewart noted. “I didn’t talk about my first relationships becoming public because I wanted things that are mine to be mine. I hated how details of my life were being commodified and sold around the world. But with so many eyes on me, I suddenly realized [my private life] affects a larger number of people than just me. It was a chance to give up a piece of what was mine, to make even one other person feel good about themselves.”
September 2018
“Yes, ambiguity is my favorite thing ever. In terms of sexuality? Definitely,” she said during an interview for Paris’ Mastermind Magazine. “And also in filmmaking, if you answer every question perfectly, you don’t allow people to have their own experience and really indulge in thinking. I think the same about how we fuck each other. You don’t always want to know everything.”
Dylan Meyer and Kristen Stewart.
Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagicJanuary 2024
Since coming out, Stewart has seen it Twilight in a new light despite focusing on a heterosexual teenage love triangle between a human girl, a vampire boy, and a werewolf man.
“I don’t think it necessarily started that way, but I also think the fact that I was there at all filtered through,” Stewart said. Variety. ‘It’s such a gay film. I mean, Jesus Christ, Taylor [Lautner] and Rob and I, and it’s so hidden and not okay. I mean, a Mormon woman [Stephenie Meyer] wrote this book. It’s all about oppression, about wanting what will destroy you. That’s a very gothic, gay bent that I love.
March 2024
Stewart appeared on the cover of Rolling stone the previous month, where she wore a jockstrap and put a hand suggestively on the front of it. The image sparked backlash, which she called “ironic.”
“I feel like I saw a lot of male pubic hair on the cover. I’ve seen a lot of hands in pants,” she said on the radio Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “I think there is a certain open recognition of a female sexuality that has a mind of its own, in a way that is annoying to people who are sexist and homophobic. Female sexuality is meant to actually want nothing more than to be obtained. [The cover] it feels like it’s sticking out in a way that could be annoying. But f–k you.”