Actress Rebel Wilson revealed her relationship with girlfriend Ramona Agruma in a photo, calling her a “Disney princess” last week, but a day later an Australian newspaper ran a column saying that they initially contacted Wilson about her sexuality, sparking widespread condemnation. from the LGBTQ2S+ community.
In an Instagram post on Friday, Wilson showed a photo of herself and Agruma smiling with the caption: “I think I’m looking for a Disney Prince… but maybe what I really need in all this time being a Disney Princess.”
Wise people flooded the post, but it has since emerged that going public with her relationship wasn’t entirely her choice.
The Sydney Morning Herald ran a column on Saturday, which has since been deleted, saying they did indeed know about the couple.
They gave Wilson’s representatives two days to comment, Saturday’s column revealed. The columnist went on to express disappointment that Wilson had decided to use that time to reveal his own relationship.
Journalist Andrew Hornery writes: “In a perfect world, same-sex relationships ‘dating’ with same-sex celebrities would be a superfluous concept by 2022. “Love is love, isn’t it? ?”
Screenshots of the column, which quickly surfaced on social media, show the author hinting that Wilson’s choice to create his own post was choosing to “review the story,” with Hornery continuing to write. that “her choice to ignore our privacy, in our opinion, the honest and truthful queries are extremely impressive. ”
The editor defended the approach, saying, “just like other headlines do every day, we just ask questions and follow standard practice including deadlines for answers”, and announced the decision. Publishing a story had not yet been launched at the time.
However, the situation has sparked outrage from LGBTQ2S+ communities around the world, with many commenting that expressing oneself as part of the LGBTQ2S+ community should be an individual’s choice. .
“That’s a big problem. It was not her choice. Coming out is something strict [personal] – you can’t meddle in someone’s personal life,” Simon Gamache, CEO of Pride Montreal, told CTV News.
“She may have had personal reasons for not doing this before. And you know what, you don’t have to go out. You can live as an LGBTQ person without being dismissed.”
Monday came with a meager culpa from the columnist.
In a new column for the Sydney Morning Herald, he wrote that he had “made a mistake” and that the situation had been “mishandled.
“I understand why my email is seen as a threat,” he wrote, adding, “As a gay man, I understand how deeply damaging discrimination is. Come on. The last thing I want to do is inflict that pain on someone else.”
For the most part, Wilson remained silent, only tweeting that it was “a very difficult situation, but she is “trying to handle it gracefully. ”
