Watch: Out Singer/Actor Hayley Kiyoko Says Her Disney Channel Role was 'Very Gay'

Hayley Kiyoko stopped by the rewatch podcast dedicated to "Wizards of Waverly Place" to say her character was "naturally very gay," Billboard reported.

The singer and actor had a recurring role during the Selena Gomez-led supernatural sitcom's third season as a character named Stevie, appearing in a total of four episodes. In a guest appearance on "The Wizards of Waverly Pod" – available on YouTube and titled "How Hayley Kiyoko Gave the Queer Disney Community a Voice" – Kiyoko had a chance to catch up with hosts Jennifer Stone and David DeLuise, who also starred on the series.

Billboard recounted that "the pop singer dubbed Lesbian Jesus recalled how the magical sitcom granted her one of her first jobs in Hollywood."

Kiyoko told the podcast that she had "just booked Velma for 'Sccoby-Doo' for Cartoon Network at the time" she landed the gig as Stevie.

But the multi-hued haircut that was the actor's signature look – which Kiyoko called "very Tegan and Sara-inspired" – proved to be an obstacle when it came to getting roles after her run on the show, Kiyoko said, recalling that the "haircut was almost like a pigeonhole where I'd go on auditions and people would be like, 'We just can't see outside of this look,' and this, like, very edgy haircut. And I was just like, 'Gosh, I'm just never gonna book anything being myself, looking like myself.'"

The series, which ran from 2007 to 2013, gave the actor "one of the first opportunities I had to be booked for what I looked like," Kiyoko said.

The podcast's hosts noted that Kiyoko's look was unique for the time.

"Kiyoko was in the closet at the time, and she insists she never meant to inject Stevie's relationship with Gomez's Alex Russo with any type of romantic undertone – even though fans of the series later dubbed the pairing as 'Stalex,'" Billboard noted.

"I was just, like, naturally very gay," Kiyoko told the podcast's hosts. "I had no notion or thoughts that there was some kind of, like, undertone or underlying storyline that was going on."

"However, after a rewatch of the Disney Channel show she says she now sees the undertones that many fans have long shipped," Entertainment Weekly relayed.

"Kiyoko explained that though she was 'probably out to people' in her circle and life, she didn't officially publicly come out until she released her song 'Girls Like Girls' in 2015," EW detailed.

"But it's funny to look back and it's really so much fun to hear the fans' reactions to Stalex and the comments of everyone just being like, 'This is so gay,'" Kiyoko said on the podcast.

"The lesbian energy was really thriving at that moment," the actor mused. "But I was in the closet to the public at that time."

Watch the podcast below.