Baby Reindeer star Jessica Gunning has publicly come out as gay. The 38-year-old actor recently wowed audiences as stalker Martha Scott in the successful Netflix drama. Longtime LGBTQ+ rights activist Jessica has shared that she came out as a “big old gay” to people in her life back in November 2022 when she was 36.
Talking about coming out she said: “That was a mega, mega thing for me. I’m surrounded by gays, all my friends are gay, and so it wasn’t that I was repressing anything. “It was just that I didn’t think I could be and I still can’t articulate it in the best way.
But, yeah, I realised I was a big old gay, and I was like: ‘That’s what it’s been. That’s what it is.’ That was a massive moment where everything clicked and I made sense for myself then.
” READ MORE: What is Erb's Palsy as Love Islander becomes first ever contestant to have condition READ MORE: Gethin Jones enjoys 'R&R' on break as Morning Live issues fresh update Jessica said after telling her family the same Christmas she “slept for 10 hours that night”. She continued: ‘It’s been a little secret I guess I’ve been keeping from myself even. And not in a kind of hating way.
I never felt I was repressing anything in a bad way or that any reaction would be bad.” The actor, who has also appeared in Doctor Who and 2014 film Pride, said she used to “watch the L Word” and “should have even known” when she filmed Pride as she would “cry all the time”. She added: �.
