Julie Bowen Reveals She As soon as Fell in Love With One other Lady

A previous heartbreak. Julie Bowen revealed that she as soon as fell in love with one other girl, however nonetheless identifies as straight because the relationship didn’t work out.

“The concept that we lead with, ‘How do you establish?’ [is wrong],” the Fashionable Household alum, 52, stated whereas talking with Becca Tilley throughout the Monday, October 31, episode of her “Quitters” podcast. “I’m straight, I’ve all the time been straight. I used to be in love with a girl for some time, however she didn’t love me again.”

Bowen added that whereas the girl in query was a lesbian, her emotions have been unreciprocated. “It by no means actually took off so I by no means actually needed to problem my idea of my sexuality,” the Horrible Bosses actress defined, earlier than stating that she doesn’t assume somebody’s sexual orientation ought to be “the very first thing we all know” about somebody.

Tilley, 34, echoed these sentiments, revealing that she felt “pressured” by the stress to label her sexuality after making her relationship with Hayley Kiyoko public earlier this yr. “I by no means even considered a label,” the “Scrubbing In” podcast host recalled. “Hayley and I met and we simply had this instantaneous connection and I simply fell in love together with her so quick that I simply by no means went into this [thought about], ‘What does it imply? What’s my label? How do I establish?’”

Although Tilley defined that labels may give many individuals “validation and luxury,” it had the other impact on her.

“I’m simply drawn to folks,” the Bachelor season 19 alum stated. “I’m drawn to males and I’m drawn to girls and [I’m] particularly [attracted to] Hayley, who I fell in love with.”

Tilley continued: “I don’t have a problem with popping out, I simply hope someday folks don’t have to come back out. It causes a variety of stress … and life is already actually onerous. Falling in love ought to simply be an attractive and pure factor that folks shouldn’t have to clarify to anyone.”

Tilley and the “Curious” singer, 31, hit it off instantly after assembly in 2018. Nonetheless, the twosome determined to maintain their relationship out of the highlight till Could 2022, when Tilley appeared in Kiyoko’s “For the Ladies” video. On the launch occasion, the couple publicly sealed issues with a kiss.

“Becca talked about they’ve been collectively for 4 years and he or she was simply able to share it,” an insider instructed Us Weekly concerning the romantic second on the time, including that they have been each “very blissful” on the bash. “It was Hayley’s night time but it surely turned Becca’s night time too as a result of she got here out publicly with the kiss.”

Bowen, for her half, married actual property investor Scott Phillips in September 2004. They welcomed son Oliver in April 2007 and twin boys, Gus and John, in Could 2009. The Boston Authorized alum and Phillips known as it quits in February 2018 and their divorce was finalized in September of that yr.