American actress-singer Hayden Panettiere comes out as bisexual, says 'Better late than never'

American actress and singer Hayden Panettiere has come out as bisexual ahead of the release of her memoir This Is Me: A Reckoning to be out on May 12. This was a revelation that was made by Nashville star in an interview with Us Weekly.

The star was quoted saying, "Now that I know that this book is coming out, and that "I've chosen to share it with the world, I'm comfortable to confidently say that yes, I am bisexual. I said it! This is the first time I got to say it out loud."

“That’s something about me I was never able to share with the world, because it was just never the right time,” she told Us Weekly. “It was either I was too young, and I was being forced to be perfect at all times. I was not encouraged to just be myself.”

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She added, “Then came the period where it felt like people coming out, especially women, saying that they were bisexual or liked girls, was a fad. I was afraid that if I was honest, it was going to be like me jumping on the bandwagon. It was a very difficult topic to articulate properly.”

The attraction to women and dating women

“Yeah, I did. It was scary, though, because there were paparazzi always waiting for me outside, to follow me everywhere. I had very little privacy. I have dated women. I was much more into women even as a child than I was men.”

Not announcing her bisexuality publicly

I have explored it, but because I hadn’t shared this with anybody, I didn’t really have the courage to throw myself fully emotionally into it. Because then if I did fall in love, that wasn’t something that I wanted to ever have to hide.”