Kristen Stewart reveals Donald Trump’s tweets inspired her coming out on SNL

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Kristen Stewart has revealed how she determined to publicly come out after seeing Donald Trump’s tweets about her break-up with Robert Pattinson.

In February 2017, Stewart hosted Saturday Night Live and took the chance to shoot again on the then-President of the United States’s social media messages, in addition to opening up about her sexuality.

“Donald, if you didn’t like me then, you’re probably really not going to like me now,” she stated throughout her monologue. “Because I’m hosting SNL and I’m, like, so gay, dude.”

In a brand new interview with Rolling Stone, Stewart, 33, stated the choice to return out on nationwide tv was a “very shoot-from-the-hip moment”.

She stated that whereas sitting with a gaggle of SNL writers, somebody introduced up Trump’s tweets about her, which accused her of dishonest on her ex-boyfriend, Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson, and inspired him to not get again with her.

“He’s mad at me for cheating on my boyfriend?” she retorted. “Little does he know…” She then determined to make use of the chance to return out.

Stewart added that she wasn’t stunned that Trump took the time to remark on her relationship. “Of course he had to weigh in on my tarring and feathering. It’s like, ‘What is this 20-year-old who has no idea about life doing to this man?’” she stated, including: “He’s such a little baby” and: “F*** you, b****!”

When Trump’s remarks about Stewart got here out in 2012, it was after she was seen kissing Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders whereas she was nonetheless relationship Pattinson, which she later publicly apologised for.

Elsewhere within the interview, Stewart stated that she is bored with the curiosity in her relationship with Pattinson, explaining: “Rob and I can’t just keep talking about that s***, because it’s f***ing weird. It’s like if someone kept asking you – I mean for literally decades – ‘But senior year in high school?’ You’re like, ‘F***ing A, man! I don’t know!’”

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Stewart has previously addressed hypothesis about her sexuality, pointing out that she was in a homosexual relationship previous to the SNL gig.

“It wasn’t even like I was hiding,” she defined. “I was so openly out with my girlfriend for years at that point. I’m like, ‘I’m a pretty knowable person.”

Stewart has continued to be open about romantic relationships, as she’s been engaged to her companion, Dylan Meyer, since 2021. During an interview with Andy Cohen in October 2023, she opened up about her future marriage ceremony plans, revealing that Guy Fieri could possibly be officiating the nuptials.