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Jenna Dewanis feeling “honored” afterJoJo Siwaincluded her in her"Gay Awakening Story" TikTok.
“Aw Jojo….! I have never been more honored 😘😘😘🌈🌈🌈,” Dewan, 41, wrote in an Instagram caption as she reacted to Siwa’s video in real-time.
In the video, Dewan gasps and holds her hand to her heart as Siwa mentions her name and what her performance ofGinuwine’s “Pony” meant to her.
Siwa made the revelation after rapping aboutDemi Lovato’s “Cool for the Summer,” stating that “a few years later Jenna Dewan went onLip Sync Battle. She did a really greatMagic Mikenumber, I pretty much watched it every day.”
“Little me, well, she didn’t know she was gay,” Siwa continued.
The star later discussed in her video how her real “awakening” came when she went on a date with a man who “wanted to have sex with me.”
JoJo Siwa’s previous signature look.JC Olivera/Getty
Back in January 2021,Siwa came out as LGBTQwhen she posted a TikTok set toLady Gaga’s “Born This Way” after spending time with TikTok collectivePride House LA. She then debuted a shirt that read “BEST GAY COUSIN EVER.”
While Siwatold PEOPLEin April of that year that she didn’t want to “label” on her sexuality at first, she does like the term “queer” or “pansexual,” stating, “Technically I would say that I am pansexual because that’s how I have always been my whole life is just like, my human is my human.”
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Siwa admitted that she didn’t want her coming out to “be a big deal,” and understood the risk of coming out and that “a lot could have gone away” because of it. “I’ve never gotten this much support from the world,” she said at the time. “I think this is the first time that I’ve felt so personally happy.”
“Performing has always made me super happy,” Siwa added. “But for the first time, personally, I am like, whoa, happiness. I am so proud to be me.”
source: people.com
