The pop songstress sat down with Tan France on Facebook Watch for National Coming Out day and discussed how the iconic scene with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair helped shape her queer identity. “It was definitely when I was young and should not have been watching Cruel Intentions, but I did and it was that scene where they made out on the park lawn,” the singer said. “I was just like, ‘Oh, wait a minute I really like that, I wanna try it’.
And then when I was 17 I did get down with that and that’s when I knew,” she continued. The two also dive into their own unique coming out experiences with Lovato saying: “I pretty much told all of my friends and my older sister when I was 17.