Kate Nash Recalls Hiding Her Bisexuality in School: ‘I Think I Want to Kiss Girls, Is Something Wrong with Me?’

Kate Nash has opened up about hiding her sexuality when she was younger.

During an interview on Origins with Cush Jumbo on Tuesday, Nov. 5, the former GLOW star, 37, recalled the experience during primary school that made her reticent to be open about being bisexual.

“I’m bisexual and I remember there was a bisexual girl at my primary school in the last year and she came new for the last year,” Nash told Cush Jumbo. “And she would walk down the street reading a book. And everyone was like, ‘she’s so weird’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah’, she says she’s bisexual and we’re like ‘Weird, what a freak,’ you know.”

She continued: “And then at school, I remember a girl saying to me, ‘It’s just so disgusting, the thought of two girls kissing, like just makes me feel sick,’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah, me too,’ But actually, I’m like, ‘I think I want to kiss girls, is something wrong with me?”

Nash then told the host, 39, how diverse and accepting the environment was when she attended the BRIT School in her teen years.

“Everyone’s so cool and different and I had a ton of gay friends talking about all of their sexual experiences to me and wanted to be open,” the “Foundations” singer recalled, adding that she “could kiss girls finally without having to pretend it was gross.”

Elsewhere in the conversation, Nash also opened up about being taught that “masturbation is a sin” by her teachers.

“The teacher was kind of laughing so I feel like the teacher kind of knew and because like one of the boys was like…‘What about on yourself?’ And she was like, ‘Yeah, that’s a sin.’ And we’re all like, ‘Ah,’ because he’s talking about masturbating,” she said.

Nash added: “I was like masturbating every night like sinning my soul away, desperately sinning.”

The “Mouthwash” artist also revealed she “didn’t know that you couldn’t get pregnant from masturbating” when she was “really little.”

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Nash isn’t a stranger to opening up about her personal life.

In a 2017 interview with The Independent, she opened up about the body shaming she dealt with in the public eye.

“When you’re a woman, you have such a strange relationship with your body because — especially when you’re in the public eye — you’re constantly being judged,” Nash said.

She continued: “People comment on my body all the time in a really inappropriate way, in a way I find completely offensive[. I] saw it in serious newspapers where I’ve been called ‘too fat’ and ‘too ugly’ to be a popstar. It’s so weird, but people feel like they can say that to you.”