Da Brat has opened up about her decision to come out as gay after being in the music industry for 25 years. The rap industry vet– who confirmed that she was dating Kaleidoscope Hair Products CEO Jesseca Dupart, told Variety, “I’ve always felt like being private is the better way to go, because then you don’t have so many people in your business. I was fine staying quiet, but my partner is a social media mogul — that’s how she became who she is. And when you get with somebody, you have to meet in the middle. So to me, the middle was just letting everybody know: ‘Hey, she’s the one.'”
Brat also revealed that coming out wasn't planned at all. She explained, “Jesseca was showing me some pictures and we were going back and forth, joking ‘I’ll post it,’ ‘No, I’ll post it.’ So when she did, I was like, ‘Oh sh–! I just came out after 20-something years!’ But it feels good to share with the world when you’re happy.”
On the reason why she never came out, she said, “I was always told you want to be f*ckable to men and women to sell records — you don’t want anybody to discriminate. It was absolutely my decision. I mean, you saw what happened to people like Ellen: Remember when she lost her TV show, and all these horrible things were happening? People were totally against it.”
