Celebs You Didn't Know Were In Same-Sex Relationships

Demi Lovato has never officially come out as explicitly bisexual, though she did hint at hooking up with a lady in "Cool for the Summer." Regardless, Orange Is the New Black star Ruby Rose claims she hooked up with the "Confident" singer. In a since-deleted Instagram post, Rose wrote, "I'm like the one person Demi has slept with that didn't sell naked photos of her, so eff off." Lovato neither confirmed nor denied Rose's claims, per Metro.

When asked about the alleged hookup in 2015, Lovato told Complex, "I don't feel like any of my past or future — when it comes to relationships that may have happened or not have happened — are of any concern to anybody ... You can believe what you want, but no, I was not in a relationship with her." She added, "By the way, love is fluid ... Humans are humans, and when you connect with somebody on a spiritual level it doesn't matter."

Where there's smoke (and smokin' hot ladies), there could certainly be fire. Or at least sparks. Just sayin'.

In 2010, Tom Hardy told the Daily Mail that he previously enjoyed relationships with men. "As a boy? Of course I have. I'm an actor for f**k's sake," he said. "I've played with everything and everyone. I love the form and the physicality, but now that I'm in my thirties, it doesn't do it for me. I'm done experimenting but there's plenty of stuff in a relationship with another man, especially gay men, that I need in my life." The Mad Max: Fury Road star added, "A lot of gay men get my thing for shoes. I have definite feminine qualities and a lot of gay men are incredibly masculine."

However, don't think for a second that this is something Hardy always feels like discussing. In 2015, he famously shut down a reporter for asking about his sexuality while promoting Legend, a film in which Hardy stars as allegedly incestuous twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray. Hardy later told the Daily Beast, "I'm under no obligation to share anything to do with my family, my children, my sexuality — that's nobody's business but my own." He said destigmatizing sexuality is important, "but to put a man on the spot in a room full of people designed purely for a salacious reaction? To be quite frank, it's rude."

In April 2014, Cameron Diaz told Glamour U.K., "All women have been sexually attracted to another woman at some point." The same month, she told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live, "Yes, I have been with a lady ... You didn't ask explicitly how I was with a lady, but I have been with a lady." 

Diaz was quick to clarify that said lady was not her Charlie's Angels co-star Drew Barrymore. "Some media outlet called for a comment and they wanted to know whether I was with Drew. Literally, I said, 'That makes me want to vomit in my mouth,'" she told Harper's Bazaar. "That's like saying I'm having sex with my sister. Are you crazy? I wouldn't even ménage with her! Everybody tries things and sees things and checks them out, and either walks away or walks further in. It's life — it's what people do."

Anne Heche began dating Ellen DeGeneres shortly after the comedienne came out of the closet as a lesbian in 1997. DeGeneres blamed their split in 2000 on the pressures of fame. "I didn't want to hold hands. I had never done that in public. And yet there was this attitude of, you know, 'You're going to be on the cover of Time magazine and say you're gay but you're not going to hold hands?' ... I don't want to be a part of a soap opera anymore. That's the keyword — a soap opera is not real," DeGeneres told the Los Angeles Times. "She walked out the door and I haven't spoken to her since ... It was the first time I ever had my heart broken ... I'd like to believe that she loved me, and that I'm not that stupid that I would be completely fooled."

After their split, Heche had a breakdown but has since recovered. When asked by The Telegraph in 2011 if her lesbian romance with DeGeneres was her last same-sex relationship, Heche left no ambiguity. "Jeepers, yes! Yes! I mean, that's been way out there for years."

Marilyn Monroe (pictured center) was notorious for her marriages to Arthur Miller and Joe DiMaggio and for her rumored affairs with President John F. Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, and Marlon Brando, but that doesn't mean this blonde preferred gentlemen. Monroe's famous feud with Joan Crawford (pictured left) supposedly began after a one-night stand with the actress, and she allegedly admitted to hooking up with actresses Barbara Stanwyck, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marlene Dietrich as well.

The Daily Mail reported that the screen legend also had a longstanding relationship with a woman. In 1948, Monroe met actress-turned-drama-coach Natasha Lytess (pictured right). They allegedly embarked on a quiet romantic relationship for four years and were described as "liv[ing] as man and wife" until Monroe met and married DiMaggio in 1952. The Yankee hero reportedly couldn't stand Lytess, calling her "Morticia."

For many years, Gavin Rossdale was happily Mr. Gwen Stefani. However, in the 1980s, the Bush frontman was apparently sowing his wild oats wherever he pleased, including with another man. Rossdale reportedly had a romance with cross-dressing performer Marilyn (born Peter Robinson). When the story broke in 2009, Rossdale initially denied it, but he came clean in 2010, explaining to Details (via the New York Daily News), "I've never wanted to appear closed about it, it's not something I've talked about really because it's always been in the glare of a tabloid world, it's just one of those things — move on."

He added, "When you're 17, Jesus Christ, I don't think there's anything strange about any form of anything — you're learning about life. It's a part of growing up — that's it, no more, no less ... Yeah, [experimentation] was it — you have to know what you like, and I know what I like."

You may remember model Jenny Shimizu bragging about bagging bisexual actress Angelina Jolie in their Foxfire days, but the Oscar-winner isn't the only A-lister Shimizu has allegedly romanced. Shimizu wrote in her memoir (via Pink News) that she basically acted as a top-secret booty call for Madonna for years, even while the Queen of Pop was in highly-publicized relationships with men. Shimizu even claimed Madge used her as a "sex slave."

Shimizu reportedly wasn't Madge's only same-sex partner. Madonna was also linked to actress Sandra Bernhard and socialite Ingrid Casares. During a 1988 joint interview on The Late Show with David Letterman, Bernhard told the host that she and Madonna slept together, but the actress later denied it. Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone, wrote in the Daily Mail in 2008, that Madge met Casares in 1991 at her own New Year's Eve party, and that the pair quietly hooked up for close to 15 years.

After her divorce from Dave Navarro in 2007, Carmen Electra was rumored to be dating Joan Jett, who she met when she acted in Jett's "A.C.D.C." music video in 2006. Electra told The Sun (via Digital Spy), "I've had a little girl crush on Joan Jett since I was eight. Remember that video where she comes out with a trench coat on and she opens up the trench coat and she's wearing a bikini and then she's rocking out with a guitar? She's hot." What's more, witnesses told Metro the pair was spotted kissing backstage at one of Jett's concerts in March 2007.

When asked whether she and Electra were friends or friends with benefits, Jett told After Ellen, "We're good friends."

In 2013, Electra said backstage on Bethenny that she would legally marry a woman, explaining, "I do believe in equal rights and I do believe in love. And I think if you truly find that love and passion, I think that's a wonderful thing ... so ladies, hit me up!"

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is notorious for having a type: female, blond, busty, and tan. However, long before The Girls Next Door and wife Crystal Harris, Hef actually reportedly hooked up with a man. In the book Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream (via The Huffington Post), it was revealed that Hefner engaged in at least one tryst with another man.

"Hefner's thirst for sexual experience became so strong that he even had a one-time homosexual experience," author Steven Watts wrote. "One evening in downtown Chicago he was propositioned and, according to [Hefner's friend Eldon] Sellers, he 'thought, what the hell. Found it an interesting experience.'"

Hefner's ex-girlfriend, former Playmate Carrie Leigh, claimed (via The Sun) that she often walked in on him being intimate with other men during their five-year relationship.

Hefner told The Washington Post in 1999, "There was some bisexuality in the heterosexual, swinging part of my life. I was testing the boundaries, just knocking down walls ... That period of sexual experimentation is long gone."

Though the late Whitney Houston's marriage to Bobby Brown was highly publicized, insiders have been whispering for years that it was actually her relationship with personal assistant Robyn Crawford that led to her downfall, because her family couldn't accept that she was in love with another woman. (Houston's mother, Cissy, told Oprah Winfrey in 2013 that it "absolutely" would have angered her if Houston was gay or bisexual.)

Crawford and Houston reportedly met as teens in East Orange, N.J. Crawford became a constant in the pop star's life, even after Houston and Brown wed in 1992. "I don't think [Houston] was gay, I think she was bisexual," Houston's former stylist, Ellin Lavar, says in the film (via The Telegraph). Whatever the dynamic, their relationship reportedly fueled a lot of tension with Brown. 

"Bobby Brown and Robyn Crawford together was the equivalent of fire and water, petrol and a short fuse. They hated each other," Houston's former bodyguard, David Roberts, says in the 2017 documentary Whitney: Can I Be Me. "They would battle for her affection." He claimed those battles between Brown and Crawford sometimes turned physical. When Crawford left Houston in 1999, some say that was the beginning of the end for Houston's health and well-being. In the documentary, insider Allison Samuels says, "Robyn was the person who was keeping [Houston] together."

Grey's Anatomy star Sara Ramirez is bisexual on and off-screen, but it wasn't until she left the series that she came out publicly. "So many of our youth experiencing homelessness are youth whose lives touch on many intersections — whether they be gender identity, gender expression, race, class, sexual orientation, religion, citizenship status," she wrote in a lengthy Twitter post (via People) in October 2016. "And, because of the intersections that exist in my own life: Woman, multi-racial woman, woman of color, queer, bisexual, Mexican-Irish American, immigrant, and raised by families heavily rooted in Catholicism on both my Mexican and Irish sides, I am deeply invested in projects that allow our youth's voices to be heard, and that support our youth in owning their own complex narratives so that we can show up for them in ways they need us to."

In March 2018, Ramirez explained why she timed her decision the way that she did. "An organic, incremental urgency to use my platform to empower those who are part of these communities that I'm a part of came over me in a way that I've never felt before," she said on Entertainment Weekly and People's "Coming Out Stories." Ramirez added that it was a "sense of relief ... It's been a form of liberation for me to own all of my identities so that I no longer feel the need to hold back or hide any parts of myself when I walk through any threshold in life."

It was rumored for years that Marlon Brando (pictured left) had numerous affairs with men and women, but never so explicitly until music producer Quincy Jones spilled the beans about The Godfather star's proclivities in February 2018. "[Marlon] Brando used to go cha-cha dancing with us. He could dance his a** off," Jones told Vulture. "He was the most charming motherf**ker you ever met. He'd f**k anything. Anything! He'd f**k a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye."

Pryor's widow, Jennifer, confirmed the affair to TMZ, but Brando's son later insisted,"The Marlon Brando family has heard the recent comments by Quincy Jones and we are disappointed that anyone would make such a wrongful comment about either Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor."

In James Dean: Tomorrow Never Comes (via the Daily Mail), composer Alec Wilder alleged that Brando had a complex relationship with James Dean (pictured right) after meeting him in 1949. "They were definitely a couple. Of course, the words 'sexual fidelity' would be unknown in each of their vocabularies," Wilder said. "Jimmy and I used to sit and talk for hours in my room at the Algonquin Hotel [in New York]. He kept me abreast of the affair. I really believe that Jimmy fell in love with Brando  ... As for Brando, I don't think he ever loved Jimmy. I met Brando only three times and each time he was with Jimmy. In my opinion, Brando was in love with Brando."

Miley Cyrus has only publicly dated men, but she was caught red-handed hooking up with model Stella Maxwell in 2015, and the pair even posed for provocative photos together, like this one for W Magazine . A source told E! News in July 2015 that the pair was hanging out and "really like one another." Maxwell talked about her connection with Cyrus to V Magazine: "We met through mutual friends via Instagram, which is where Cheyne contacted me about taking some photos. It's been a trip to hang out and see a little of their world. Felt very organic and right."

Cyrus was candid about her pansexuality, as well as status with Maxwell. "'I'm 22, I'm going on dates, but I change my style every two weeks, let alone who I'm with," she told Elle UK. "Stella's awesome, but as soon as you hang out with someone, you get labelled as in a relationship. And I'm like, you can't just assume that everyone I'm sitting at dinner with is a date ... Then you break up and it's everywhere."

Cyrus later reconciled with ex-fiancé, actor Liam Hemsworth, and it's widely rumored that her song "She's Not Him" is about leaving Maxwell for Hemsworth.

Before her ill-fated marriage to Johnny Depp and her relationships with Sean Penn and Elon Musk, Amber Heard dated photographer Tasya Van Ree from 2008 to 2012. Documents obtained by People revealed that during the romance, Heard even briefly legally changed her last name to Van Ree.

In June 2016, in the midst of Heard's extremely acrimonious divorce from Depp, his attorneys claimed in court documents that Heard was arrested for domestic violence against Van Ree while she and the photographer were together. Heard allegedly got into an argument with Van Ree at an airport in September 2009 and was accused of grabbing and striking Van Ree's arm, reported TMZ. Police arrested Heard for misdemeanor domestic violence, but she was not prosecuted.

Van Ree has defended the actress. "In 2009, Amber was wrongfully accused for an incident that was misinterpreted and over-sensationalized by two individuals in a power position," she told People. "We shared five wonderful years together and remain close to this day."

Heard told Allure in November 2017, "I didn't come out [of the closet]. I was never in ... I happened to be dating a woman, and people started taking pictures of us walking to our car after dinner. I [was] holding her hand, and I realized that I have two options: I can let go of her hand and, when asked about it, I can say that my private life is my private life. Or I could not let go and own it."

Paris Jackson, daughter of Michael Jackson, is rumored to have hooked up with Cara Delevingne, even taking her on a double-date with Paris' godfather, actor Macaulay Culkin, and Culkin's girlfriend, Brenda Song. Photos of Paris and Delevingne hugging, kissing, and Delevingne sitting on Paris' lap soon went viral.

According to The Sun, Delevingne and Paris have been close ever since meeting at the MTV Movie and TV Awards in spring 2017. They were first spotted looking cozy in November of that year. The girls even posed for social media photos together in bed, where they ate strawberries and watched Carol, a movie about a lesbian couple. A source told the tab, "They're both really into their music and have been spending nights singing and jamming on the guitar. It's early days, and Cara doesn't really have time for a proper relationship due to her non-stop filming commitments with Carnival Row, but there's no denying there's a spark."

An insider dished to Radar Online: "Prince [Jackson] has said their father would be proud of his daughter for following her own path, as she always has. Michael taught them that love knew no bounds, and that would include race or sexual orientation. This is indeed a loving healthy relationship between Paris and Cara. It is probably the healthiest and happiest relationship Paris has ever been in, and for that, her family has their full support."

Azealia Banks (pictured left) is known more for her social media troubles and high-profile feuds than for her love life (or, let's be real, even her music). Though openly bisexual, Banks has only had public relationships with men, including actor Jesse Bradford and Coldplay manager Dave Holmes — she accused the latter of abusing her, reported XXL. However, thanks to her propensity for Twitter beefs (before she was forever banned from the microblogging service,) it was revealed that Banks supposedly had a private dalliance with fellow rapper Angel Haze (pictured right).

Along with a diss track called "On the Edge," Haze posted screenshots of text messages allegedly from Banks begging her to come to her hotel. Haze reportedly came by to hang out but rejected Banks' advances, leading to a long, boring feud between the female MCs. Banks responded with a track of her own titled "No Problems."

In terms of defining her sexuality, Banks told The New York Times in 2012, "I'm not trying to be, like, the bisexual, lesbian rapper. I don't live on other people's terms."

Throughout her career, Charlize Theron has only publicly dated men, including Stuart Townsend and Sean Penn, but that doesn't mean she hasn't had any same-sex romances behind the scenes. During a July 2017 episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Theron admitted to previously having a sexual relationship with a woman when Cohen asked her the cringe-worthy "Have you ever swam in the lady pond?" question. "I mean, it's just so strange when we talk so much about it. It should be normalized by now," the Oscar-winner said. "When I was young, yes. I feel like when you're young, you're just kind of exploring it all, but it was pretty clear that I really liked dudes."

Though she prefers men in her private life, Theron admitted that when making love in movies, one of her favorite scenes was with Sofia Boutella in 2017's Atomic Blonde. "I don't know if it's because of the gender, but I think with Sofia it was really easy just because we're both dancers. You have to choreograph those scenes quite a bit, otherwise they just becomes kind of silly. There's a technical aspect to it. With her, it was really easy just because she thinks like I think ... With guys, they tend to not be dancers, so it takes a little bit more work," she told Extra. "Doing a love scene with guys is different, but I enjoy both."

In a March 2016 episode of Watch What Happens Live, host Andy Cohen asks Chrissy Teigen if she's swam in the lady pond (seriously, who says that?) The swimsuit model, prolific tweeter, and Lip Sync Battle hostess, who's happily married to musician John Legend, replied, "Oh! Maybe doggy-paddled? Not full on swam."

Comedian Wanda Sykes has amassed a lengthy list of screen credits in addition to headlining numerous standup comedy specials. She's been married twice — first to a man, and then to a woman. Her marriage to music producer Dave Hall lasted from 1991 until 1998; as she explained in a 2013 interview with Oprah Winfrey, she came to realize that particular marriage represented her attempt to suppress her homosexuality, something she'd been trying to run from for her entire life. "I chose to be straight," Sykes said. "Totally repressed it."

In 2008, Sykes came out as openly gay, and at the same time revealed she had a wife. As Sykes told The Guardian, she met her future spouse, Alex Niedbalski, while vacationing at Fire Island in 2006, and found herself immediately smitten. "Something really said to me — like, audibly — 'Wow, that's what you need, Wanda,'" she recalled. Two years later they wed, and in 2009 welcomed twins.

Motherhood wasn't something that Sykes ever imagined for herself, until her wife managed to sell her on the idea. "I had no vision of having kids at all," Sykes said during an appearance on NPR's "Fresh Air." According to Sykes, she eventually came around when she had an epiphany about children. "I quickly was, like, 'You know? Why wouldn't you want kids? Why wouldn't you want to start a family with this person?' And it's the best decision I've ever made," she said.

Fans of Denis O'Hare who only know the actor from his roles in "True Blood" and "American Horror Story" may not realize that he and interior designer Hugo Redwood have been married since 2011, when the two tied the knot in New York City. Speaking with The Advocate prior to their wedding, O'Hare revealed that by that point they'd already been together for a decade. "Hugo and I have a pretty fantastic relationship. We definitely have our frictions here and there, but we get along really, really well," he said. 

In 2012, E! News reported that the couple were planning to adopt a child, a 17-month old boy they'd been raising as a foster child since he was two weeks old. According to the outlet, the spouses were in the process of completing the adoption process so they would become his legal guardians.

As O'Hare told Logo in 2018, the adoption process did not happen overnight. "It was a long process because he was a foster care child," O'Hare explained. "It didn't get done since 2014 when he was three." In an interview with The American the following year, O'Hare discussed his personal life, one that some may find unorthodox but is just right for him. "My life is not without bumps and real challenges and some tragedy, but I'm grateful for my family," he shared.

Actor Jonathan Bennett made a big impression on moviegoers from his role in "Mean Girls," and although he never formally came out as gay he was inadvertently outed by Julianne Hough while he competed on "Dancing With the Stars" in 2014. Bennett went on to make television history of sorts when starred in 2020 Hallmark Channel movie "The Christmas House," the first-ever Hallmark movie featuring a same-ex relationship. He went on to star in Hallmark Channel Christmas movie "The Holiday Sitter," breaking even more ground in Hallmark's first-ever movie to feature a gay couple as the primary focus of the storyline.

In 2020, the same year that "The Christmas House" debuted, Bennett and television host Jaymes Vaughn announced that they'd gotten engaged. "I love how I can be unapologetically myself and I love that he loves me unconditionally for it," Bennett gushed to People at the time.

In March 2022, the couple walked down the aisle during a wedding ceremony held in Mexico. The couple had come to realize that, as a same-sex couple exchanging vows, they were part of something far bigger than just a wedding. "When you're part of the LGBTQ+ fam, not everything in the wedding space is for you yet," Vaughan told People, with Bennett adding, "And all that, as we were going through this process, we realized that our wedding is also more than just about us. It's about the entire community."

There's no denying that Cynthia Nixon is and will likely always be best known for playing Miranda on "Sex and the City," a role she reprised in 2021 for the revival series "And Just Like That." In 2003, she ended her 15-year marriage to Danny Mozes and subsequently began openly dating Christine Marinoni. While Nixon initially described herself as bisexual, she's since decided that her sexuality isn't so easily categorized, preferring the term queer. "I could call myself a lesbian, gay, bisexual. But none of them seems really particularly right," Nixon told Attitude, as reported by The Advocate. "To say 'queer' means, 'I'm over there, I don't have to go into the nuances of my sexuality with you.'"

Nixon and Marinoni continued dating, and in 2009 became engaged. As Nixon told People in 2010, they were happy to enjoy a lengthy engagement. "I'm enjoying being engaged very much. I don't mind a long engagement, which this one is surely turning out to be," she said.

The couple finally tied the knot in May 2012, a year after Marinoni gave birth to the couple's son (Nixon is also the mother of two children that she shares with her ex-husband). Interestingly, Nixon's TV character embarked on a similar journey on "And Just Like That" when Miranda left husband Steve, and began a relationship with non-binary comedian Che Diaz, played by Sara Ramirez.

Maria Bello is known for roles in such films as "Coyote Ugly" and "A History of Violence," and as a cast member of mega-hit TV series "NCIS." In 2013, Bello came out, revealing in a New York Times essay that she was gay and that she had fallen in love with a female friend, Clare. In her essay, Bello wrote about how she explained her relationship to her young son, Jack, whom she shares with her one-time lover, Dan. Her son, she wrote, offered her a most wonderful response. "Mom, love is love, whatever you are," she recalled him telling her.

While that romance didn't last, Bello subsequently embarked on a relationship with French chef Dominique Crenn. Their relationship, Crenn told People, intensified when she was diagnosed with cancer not long after they began dating. Ultimately, the ordeal brought the two women closer together; in 2020, they announced their engagement. 

"We're pretty happy, considering that we just got engaged," Bello told ETOnline. "It was very surprising and meant to be, but about time. I've finally grown up enough to get married."