From Vegas and new merch to bossy and unbothered, tis the season of Keke Palmer. The self-proclaimed ‘millennial diva’ has been on a roll since her girls’ night out at Usher’s residency, most recently dishing some tea about her sexuality.
During a podcast interview with The Best Podcast Ever with Raven and Miranda, the 29-year-old revealed her longtime interest in women. The KeyTv CEO, singer and actress shared with Raven Symone, who is the podcast host, that she has had an attraction to women since she was a teenager. She said she started ‘embracing her feelings’ when she was 17.
“There’s just an unsaid thing that can make you feel… you know what I mean?” she said. “And because I always like guys too, I was like, ‘Well, we don’t have to talk about it.’ You know what I mean?”
She continued: “So it was like, because I like guys too, it was like, you know, that was just a little extra thing that no one really has to know about. I didn’t really have to live it out. I felt that way, or had those thoughts, very young. I guess you just get to the point where I want my life to be my own life.”
Palmer added that her parents never cared about her sexuality and have always been supportive.
“Sexuality and stuff like that, that was not even — my parents never even cared about something like that or talked about that,” she said. “And I know that by the time they saw how free of a spirit I was, and whoever I wanted to date, they were like, ‘Whoever cares.’ It was never anything that was in their mind.”
Talk about Palmer’s sexuality first started brewing in 2016 when she dropped her single, “I Don’t Believe To You,” which features her ending up with a woman.
“The video was to represent the young woman today – it’s not the traditional woman anymore – and not the specifics of ‘Am I gay? Am I straight? Am I bi?’” she told PEOPLE that year. “I’m making the rules for myself, and I don’t have to be stuck down to one label.”
But one label Palmer has added is ‘motha.’ The multitalented mogul shares son Leodis Andrellton Jackson with Darius Jackson.
