‘They get me more than I understand myself’: Natalie Bassingthwaighte opens up about same-sex relationship

Natalie Bassingthwaighte has opened up in detail for the first time about her ‘beautiful’ relationship with partner Pip Loth.

After revealing she had found new love with a woman sixteen months ago, Natalie Bassingthwaighte has opened up in detail for the first time about her “beautiful” relationship with partner Pip Loth, who she describes as “the kindest human I’ve ever met”.

In a new interview on the Stellar podcast Something To Talk About, Bassingthwaighte exclusively talks about how the romance has profoundly changed her, saying Loth was her biggest support as she navigated the intense public interest in the relationship following her split from her husband and father of her two children, Harper, 14 and Hendrix, 11, Cameron McGlinchey, in 2022.

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“They get me more than I understand myself,” she revealed on the latest episode of Something To Talk About.

“It’s been the wildest time in my life and it’s beautiful,” she said. “That whole time [after Bassingthwaighte went public with her new relationship] was incredibly tough.

“We got through it. We’re actually so fine now … they’ve made me feel heard and loved.”

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Natalie Bassingthwaighte, right, with Pip Loth.

She added that the not only the public response, but her own reaction to the new relationship, took her by surprise.

“What I’ve learnt over this time is that I think I had internalised homophobia myself, so I was terrified about what people would say and think and feel,” she told Something To Talk About, in a new episode out today.

“That’s just ingrained in growing up in a certain time when you weren’t allowed to be. It doesn’t mean I don’t get scared sometimes but that debilitating fear has gone. And it’s beautiful.

“I feel heard, I feel safe, I feel connected.”

The singer, actor and musical theatre star, who is currently touring her triumphant one-woman show Shirley Valentine around the country, also opened up about the emotional difficulties of co-parenting her two children with McGlinchey, revealing how hard she found spending her first Christmas without them.

“It was the hardest Christmas I’ve ever experienced. My therapist is like, you know what? It’s OK. Tell the kids it’s the month of Christmas and yoy’ll celebrate on different days.

“So I kept going, ‘It’s the month’. Then one day I’d be hysterically crying. It was really hard. Harder than I thought it would be.”

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Bassingthwaighte also revealed she is in the midst of writing a memoir that she says will include things that “people have no idea about”.

“I was asked [to write the memoir] a few years ago and I was like, ‘Hell no! I don’t want anyone knowing my deepest, darkest secrets,’” she added.

“And since all of this, and rediscovering myself, I went, ‘I think I’m ready.’ It’s been the wildest ride so far. I’m writing like there’s no tomorrow. I’ve had a full life.”

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Originally published as ‘They get me more than I understand myself’: Natalie Bassingthwaighte opens up about same-sex relationship