Matilda star Mara Wilson says coming out after Orlando Shooting was “An emotional decision”

In June we reported that Matilda star Mara Wilson came out as bisexual in the wake of the Orlando massacre.

The former child-star took to Twitter to share a younger photo of herself at a gay bar, writing: “the LGBTQ community has always felt like home, especially a few years later when I, uh, learned something about myself.”

Me at a gay club when I was eighteen. I feel embarrassed looking at it now… pic.twitter.com/qMZec3WBvu

— Mara Wilson (@MaraWilson) June 12, 2016

After fans started to ask questions to get a clearer understanding of what she meant, the 28-year-old used the Kinsey scale (the heterosexual-homosexual rating scale) to clarify, stating she was a ‘2’ meaning she mainly identifies as heterosexual ‘but more than incidentally homosexual’.

.@__SonjaLouise__ I said I *used* to identify as mostly straight. I’ve embraced the Bi/Queer label lately

— Mara Wilson (@MaraWilson) June 14, 2016

But in an interview with People, Wilson revealed that coming out was “an emotional decision.”

“If I had known it was going to trend on Facebook, I don’t know that I would have done it just then. But the vast majority of the feedback has been positive.”

Wilson has recently released a memoir entitled ‘Where Am I Now? – True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame’ which tells the story of her time as a child star and her life afterwards.

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