Susan Sarandon casually drops sexuality revelation during TV interview

Actress Susan Sarandon made a huge revelation about her private life during a recent TV interview, seemingly confirming years of rumours.

Susan Sarandon has come out as bisexual in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

During an appearance on the show back in September, Sarandon, 76, opened up about her sexuality in a candid chat with the host, The Sun reports.

The Dead Man Walking actress casually confirmed her own bisexuality when making a joke about cats and dogs.

During the chat, Jimmy mentioned that Susan had brought her dogs out on a previous appearance she had made on the show. The Academy Award winner then informed the host that her dogs had died a year before.

“My little creatures all passed away. I can’t talk about it because I still get upset. It was about a year ago,” she said. “I was feeling sad and … I said, ‘I can’t get another dog. I just can’t.’ You know? And [my son] said, ‘Well, then get cats.’

She then blurted out: “And I’m bi, so …” as the audience laughed at her casual reveal.

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Susan Sarandon made the casual reveal on Jimmy Fallon's show.

Jimmy took the chance to probe further, asking Susan: “So you mean you like dogs and cats?”

She cheekily replied: “I’m fluid, I’m very fluid where animals are concerned.”

But this isn’t the first time that Susan has hinted at being bisexual.

In 2017, she told Michigan-based LGBTQ news outlet Pride Source that her sexual orientation is “open”.

“My sexual orientation is up for grabs, I guess you could say,” she said at the time.

In the same interview, she said the majority of her friends have always been gay men and women.

Explaining why she hasn’t had a “large dating career,” other than some long-lasting relationships with men, she described herself as a “serial monogamist”.

Sarandon has previously suggested she’s bisexual, but had never outright confirmed it. Picture: Geoff Robins/AFP

And in 2021, when she was asked during a podcast interview about her dating interests, Susan said she doesn’t care about the gender of her potential suitors, just that they must be vaccinated against coronavirus.

Susan married Chris Sarandon in 1967 when she was just 20 years old. They divorced in 1979 but she decided to retain the surname Sarandon as her stage name.

She was then involved romantically with director Louis Malle, musician David Bowie and, briefly, actor Sean Penn.

Sean Penn and Sarandon dated after starring in 1995’s Dead Man Walking.

In the mid-1980s, Sarandon dated Italian filmmaker Franco Amurri, with whom she had a daughter, Eva Amurri, in 1985.

Beginning in 1988, Susan lived with actor Tim Robbins, after the pair met while filming Bull Durham. They have two sons – John and Miles.

Susan split with Tim in 2009 and began a relationship with Jonathan Bricklin, but they broke up in 2015.

This story originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission

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