The award-winning actress shared her journey navigating questions about her sexuality on 'The Kelly Clarkson Show' Friday morning.
movies directed by Jon M. Chu, spoke about the energy she put into shrouding her queerness over the years — without even realizing she was not living her fully authentic life.
“Once you take the energy away from concealing something that is so a part of you that you can’t hide it, you can put it elsewhere and make more wonderful things,” she shared. Clarkson said she’d “never heard someone describe it like that,” when Erivo described how she didn’t have the terminology to describe how she felt growing up, though she knew “something was different.”
“We don’t necessarily know the language until someone says these are words that you might want to use, these are expressions you might want to use, here is some space for you so you can speak about yourself without someone else telling you,” Erivo said. Later on in the show’s Kellyoke segment, Clarkson and Erivo performed a jazzy rendition of “When You Wish Upon A Star.”