On a recent episode of the Homo Sapiens podcast with Alan Cumming and Chris Sweeney, the comedian opened up about the incident, stating: “I did have my first homophobic insult in 20 years recently, and I thought, ‘Oh I wonder if that’s coming back?’ I was on the heath and this guy… I think he said, ‘You f***ing dyke’.” She continued: “I went right up to him and said ‘What did you say?’ […] my hand was out, I wanted to keep that distance because, like if you come in the length of my arm I know that something really bad is going to happen.” In regards to the man’s response, she said: “He just sort of buckled a bit and he said ‘Well I mean you have a really nice face’.” The incident proved to be extremely emotional for Perkins with the