Looking back, how do you feel about the fact that you didn’t connect with the other girls on the show?
I guess it was more important to me then than it is now. It’s just that I was away from home for so long and I wanted to connect with someone and talk to someone and all of that, instead of calling home. You can’t really say much when you call home so I was just trying to connect with them. But every time I made a comment, there would be like little jokes because someone would say something. So I was just like screw it, I’ll just sit here by myself and read.
Why do you think they picked on you?
The main reason is that I didn’t stand up for myself at the time. I let them get away with their little comments in a way.
While you were watching the episodes from home, did the comments they made behind your back hurt your feelings?
Not anymore. I was just like that’s their problem and not mine. I definitely don’t really care anymore but my thing is if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it at all. I try to do that. I try to put the best out there.
How hard was it for you to reveal your bisexuality on the show?
I thought it was going to be really hard actually, to let someone know. I had been hiding that for four years. I think that’s why I felt disconnected from the girls. I was trying to hide that and it hid some of my other emotions that I needed to express. And when I started talking to Noelle about it, it kind of slipped out and she was just like ‘Oh really?’ I just started talking about it and it was really easy. I turned around and there was a camera there and I was like ‘Oh, shit.’ Besides that, it wasn’t too hard to talk about.
So the people in your life found out about your bisexuality by watching the TV show?
