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Kristen Stewart recently opened up about her experience coming out to the world on Saturday Night Live in 2017, revealing that the decision came from a rather unexpected place: being on the receiving end of Donald Trump’s ire.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Stewart said coming out was a âvery shoot-from-the-hip moment” for her. “It did not feel like this bloodletting,” she admitted.
She recalled working with the SNL writers on her opening monologue, saying, “This is the most boring monologue ever. What are we going to do? What the fuck?”
At some point during the meeting, a writer brought up that Trump had recently trashed her for cheating on Robert Pattinson, her then-boyfriend, with the married director of Snow White and the Huntsman, Rupert Sanders.
“Robert Pattinson should not take back Kristen Stewart. She cheated on him like a dog & will do it again–just watch. He can do much better!” Trump had tweeted at the time, before following up a day later with another tweet, saying, “Lots of response to my Pattinson/Kristen Stewart reunion. She will cheat again–100 certain–am I ever wrong?”
âHeâs mad at me for cheating on my boyfriend?â Stewart told RS she remembered saying at the time. âLittle does he know.â¦â The outlet reports that was the moment she “knew” she would do it.
During her opening monologue that evening in 2017, Stewart had some words to say for the man who would eventually become President of the United States.
âDonald, if you didnât like me then, youâre probably really not going to like me now,â she said. âBecause Iâm hosting SNL and Iâm, like, so gay, dude.â
The actress also took the time to fire back at Trump for speaking on her dating life at the time.
âOf course he had to weigh in on my tarring and feathering. Itâs like, âWhat is this 20-year-old who has no idea about life doing to this man?ââ she said.
âHeâs such a little baby,” she declared, before adding, âFuck you, bitch!â
The actress later said that she had a much easier time after coming out than an actress like Jodie Foster did. Stewart says Foster remains a mentor for her since they co-starred together in the 2002 film Panic Room when Stewart was 10 years old.
âFor me, it wasnât a problem,” the Love Lies Bleeding star confessed. “Had I really wanted to carve out more commercial space and maintain that, I donât know if that wouldâve worked.â
Foster famously came out at the Golden Globes in 2013, where she proclaimed during her acceptance speech that she “already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the Stone Age.”
