Reneé Rapp has slammed followers doubting that she’s a lesbian. (Getty/Kayla Oaddams)
Imply Ladies star Reneé Rapp, who “hard-launched” herself as a lesbian on Saturday Night time Stay in January, has made it very clear that she is, in actual fact, a lesbian.
The “Snow Angel” singer and former Intercourse Lives of School Ladies star had beforehand described herself as bisexual, and had sung about being in relationships with each women and men. However through the “Leisure Tonight Lip-Readers” phase on Saturday Night time Stay on 20 January, she was casually launched by Saltburn star Jacob Elordi because the “little lesbian intern”.
Within the two months since then, Rapp has begun referring to herself as a lesbian on social media and in interviews. Nonetheless, some followers continued to query whether or not she was simply joking.
Now the singer has doubled down with a fierce publish on Twitter/X, aimed toward those that proceed to doubt her sexuality. “If I say I’m a lesbian, I’m a lesbian,” she declared. “And if somebody says they’re bi, they’re bi. I’ve had sufficient of you witches.”
Following her assertion, followers have jumped to her defence and shared their very own experiences of getting their sexuality doubted.
“It’s straight-up exhausting having to defend who you might be to individuals who gained’t simply hear and settle for it,” one fan wrote on social media. “Your id isn’t a debate matter or some concept to be picked aside, it’s your lived actuality, your coronary heart, your soul.”
One other social media person mentioned: “It’s like y’all overlook sexualities can change, they’re simply labels,” whereas a 3rd added: “Individuals actually be on the market pondering they know her higher than she is aware of herself.”
Previous to publicly figuring out as a lesbian, Reneé Rapp spoke about her previous insecurities surrounding her sexuality.
Talking about her expertise of becoming a member of Intercourse Lives of School Ladies, she admitted not feeling queer sufficient to be within the solid. “I known as one in every of my pals and I used to be like: ‘I’m straight, I feel I’m straight. I can’t do that, I can’t do that’,” she recalled.
“They [said]: ‘What the f**ok is occurring with you?’ and [I replied], ‘I don’t know however I can’t’. I used to be in a panic always. I wasn’t [straight] however I used to be so freaked out by the concept of my sexuality not being finite, or individuals laughing at me, or me laughing at myself, that I hated my first 12 months of filming.”
Rapp, who appeared announce her relationship with singer Towa Fowl on the Oscars final month, added that her imposter syndrome was compounded by homosexual males denying her sexuality.
“I’m doing these scenes and having homosexual males got here as much as me and be like: ‘Are you actually homosexual?’” she mentioned. “It f**king p***ed me off and made me second guess every part about myself. I used to be beating myself up a lot. It was loopy.”