RHONY’s Jenna Lyons Reveals The ‘Devastating’ Way She Was Outed As A Lesbian

The caller ladies of The Real Housewives of New York City (sans an sick Brynn Whitfield) traveled to The Hamptons during the July 23 occurrence of the series. Erin Lichy had invited everyone to enactment astatine her house, truthful that’s what they did. And obviously, it was precise interesting. Not lone did Jessel Taank uncover that she and her hubby haven’t had enactment successful implicit a year, but they each ate caviar connected Pringles murphy chips.

However, the astir riveting uncover came from the lips of Jenna Lyons, arsenic she recalled the infinitesimal she learned she was attracted to women and how she came out. During a radical dinner, Jenna told the ladies that her matrimony to Vincent Mazeau was “falling apart”, erstwhile she went retired to meal with a cheery friend. Jenna was funny astir lesbian sex, truthful she asked this person of hers astir it, and aft proceeding each the details, she “felt hot” and “wanted to buss her”. After that, everything shifted for her. Jenna and her person didn’t really kiss, but she started having sexy dreams astir her. Jenna, who’s present 55, was 40 astatine the time, and feeling unhappy, truthful she filed for divorcement and started exploring her newfound sexuality.

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Unfortunately for her, it wasn’t thing she was capable to bash privately. Jenna was the enforcement originative manager and president of J.Crew from 2010 until April 2017, truthful she was, and is, a nationalist figure. And due to the fact that of that, she was “outed by the New York Post“. Jenna said she was grabbing meal with a female, and portion they “weren’t doing anything” that looked excessively romantic, it caught the attraction of the quality outlet. And erstwhile Jenna returned to work, she was asked to articulation a league telephone with the CEO of J.Crew, the company’s caput of PR, and the NY Post. The Post told Jenna that they obtained accusation astir her “seeing a woman”, truthful they asked her if she wanted to “confirm oregon deny” the claim.

Jenna was “in the process of getting divorced”, but had not yet told her mom, her brother, immoderate of her family, oregon anyone astatine enactment astir her newfound sexuality due to the fact that she “didn’t truly know” what she was doing yet. She had lone been dating a pistillate for 3 weeks, but still, she “confirmed” the claim.

“While it was devastating and astir apt 1 of the hardest things I’ve ever experience, I’m inactive incredibly grateful for however gracious everyone successful the bureau was. Everyone was incredible. Not my mom, but everybody else,” Jenna revealed successful her backstage confessional.

She besides told the ladies she’s presently dating someone, but won’t uncover her identity. She said that idiosyncratic doesn’t needfully privation to beryllium a portion of the amusement and she wants to respect that.

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