Former child star Mara Wilson has spoken proudly and candidly about her sexuality on social media.
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Following the tragic events of the Orlando shooting in a gay club and tragedy felt by LGBTQ people, the Matilda star felt compelled to discuss on Twitter her own personal attachment to the community.
On Monday, she posted a photo of herself in a gay club and reflected on how she felt safe and welcomed by the gay community.
“The LGTBQ community has always felt like home, especially a few years later when I, uh, learned something about myself,” she wrote along with a series of other tweets.
Wilson then delved a little deeper after answering a question posed by a fan about what her sexuality was. She referred to herself as a number 2 on the Kinsey Scale, which is a heterosexual and homosexual chart and rates where people fall. A 2 refers to “Predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual.”
She then declared that she’s “embraced the Bi/Queer lately”, and said that despite opening about her personal life, she will continue to keep her relationships private.
Wilson has remained relatively under the radar since her child star days, and she has recently released a memoir called Where Am I Now?.
Mara played Matilda in the 1996 film
In 2012, Mara announced she quit acting because it’s “not very fun”.
She now works for Publicolor, an organisation that focuses on the psychological effects of colour, plus she’s also written a Broadway play, called Sheeple.
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