January 12, 2019
Amber Heard Explains Why She Came Out as Bi to Italian Fashion Magazine
READ TIME: 3 MIN.
Amber Heard may be playing Aquaman's love interest in the mega-hit DC Comics movie, but perhaps she could also be Wonder Woman's as well, at least in her personal life.
In an interview with the Italian fashion magazine IO Donna, the 32-year old actress explained why she came out as bisexual.
"It was a period when my colleagues were increasingly demanding privacy and in the meantime being bisexual was considered a taboo," she told the magazine.
"But to be silent about something means to admit underneath that that thing is wrong. But I knew it was not like that.
"So I told myself to describe reality in a truthful way and to offer young people someone to look up to, since those of my generation had grown up without any model of reference.
"Who knows, thanks to me, maybe someone has felt less inadequate. The luck of this job is that it offers me an important platform, but I have a duty to give something back. To talk about justice, to make my roles have an impact... it's the least I can do."
At the time she was in a relationship with photographer Tasya van Ree. They split in 2012.
She also had advice for gay actors in Hollywood and the effect it would have: ""If every gay man that I know personally came out in Hollywood tomorrow... we'll have a day of it, national 'you know who you are day' - if all of the gay men I knew personally came out tomorrow, then this would be a nonissue in a month."