'I was broken': Evan Rachel Wood reveals she was so depressed when struggling with her bisexuality she didn't think she would survive
Evan Rachel Wood had a difficult time understanding her bisexuality when she was younger.
And during a speech at the Human Rights Campaign’s Visibility Award in Charlotte, North Carolina over the weekend the 29-year-old actress described how she felt.
'There was a time, despite what it may have looked like on the surface, that the fear had gripped me so tight, and I felt broken and unlovable,' the Westworld star said. 'And I did not think I would see tomorrow.'
At the podium: Evan Rachel Wood talked understanding her bisexuality during a speech at the Human Rights Campaign’s Visibility Award in Charlotte, North Carolina over the weekend
Pain: 'There was a time, despite what it may have looked like on the surface, that the fear had gripped me so tight, and I felt broken and unlovable,' the Westworld star said
And the former child star said it was artists who pulled her through it.
'Because of the voices I listened to, because of the people I identified with, the films I had watched, the music I had heard, because of words like "bisexual" and the doors that it opened, I’m still here,' said the actress, suggesting she had contemplated ending her life.
'And I didn’t miss out on the most beautiful thing I’ve seen yet, and that was my son.'
Props to her heroes: 'Because of the voices I listened to, because of the people I identified with, the films I had watched, the music I had heard... I’m still here,' she admitted
Wood has a three-year-old son, whose name she has yet to share, with ex-husband Jamie Bell.
She is currently engaged to her Rebel And A Basketcase band mate Zach Villa.
The star also talked about how she felt growing up.
'I thought that I was like every other girl who had a slight obsession with Jessica Rabbit, K.D. Lang and Melissa Etheridge,' she said.
The ex: Wood has a three-year-old son, whose name she has yet to share, with ex-husband Jamie Bell. Pictured 2013
'A girl who was more comfortable borrowing her brother’s baggy pants and backwards hats than putting on an Easter dress. Who would rather play in the mud than in makeup.'
The when she turned 12-years-old she noticed a difference.
'Right around when puberty and sexual feelings start to take over – and I felt something that I couldn’t explain,' she confessed.
The new guy: She is currently engaged to her Rebel And A Basketcase band mate Zach Villa. Pictured January
'I thought women were beautiful, and I realized I had always thought women were beautiful. But because I was born that way, I never once stopped to think that was strange or anything to fear.'
But then she hid her feelings when she heard hate speech.
But in 2011 she came out as bisexual. She told Esquire magazine she was 'into anything.'
Suits her: The beauty, seen here in January, said she will only wears suits now to red carpet events because it's less stressful
And now Wood loves what she does because she thinks she can touch someone who struggled like she did.
'I realized that every time I had reached out my hand to someone through a song or a performance of mine I was also reaching for someone’s hand,' she said.
'I see you, you see me. We aren’t so different. And through that connection, the healing begins.'
She can next be seen in Viena And The Fantomes about a punk band in the 1980s.
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