Alba: ‘Drag queen crush made me ditch born-again Christians’
By Josh Haggis
Jessica Alba has revealed that she fell in love with a drag queen as a teenager – and it caused her to distance herself from the church.
The actress was a member of what she calls a “born-again Christian youth group” when she was a teenager but rejected its teachings after becoming friends with a bisexual boy and going out dancing in gay clubs.
She told The Daily Beast:
“I fell in love when I was 16 and had this major crush on… I guess he was a drag queen? He was bisexual and a ballerina, and this was while I was at the Atlantic Theater Company in Vermont. We used to go to this gay club and I’d dance with him all night, four nights a week. I was so in love with him and thought, ‘There’s no way this guy’s going to hell,’ because in my church, it was, ‘Anybody who’s gay is going to hell’ and ‘Premarital sex is evil,’ and I thought, ‘There’s no chance! This guy is amazing!’ So that [religious teachings] went right out the window.”
Alba, who has since become a vocal supporter of LGBT rights, will soon be seen in Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For, which opens in UK cinemas on Monday (August 25).
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