Nicola Sturgeon has opened up about her sexuality, revealing that she has never considered her sexuality to be binary in a new autobiography.
In a new extract from her memoir Frankly, the former First Minister of Scotland has opened up about her sexuality and relationships.
The book will be launched on August 14 at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, while it was also revealed last night that the 55-year-old will give an ‘in-depth’ interview to ITV News at Ten presenter Julie Etchingham next month, just days before it comes out.
She said: ‘Long-term relationships with men have accounted for more than thirty years of my life, but I have never considered sexuality, my own included, to be binary.
She added: ‘Moreover, sexual relationships should be private matters.’
In an extract published by The Times, the former politician also discussed rumours around a lesbian affair, her husband’s desperation for a baby and the difficult experience of losing a child.
The former SNP leader confessed that upon finding out she was pregnant at 40, her husband Peter was ‘ecstatic’ but she was disappointed, wanting insead to focus on her career.
Instead she felt guilty about being pregnant and not being as happy as her partner.
Nicola Sturgeon has opened up about her sexuality, revealing that she has never considered her sexuality to be binary in a new autobiography (Pictured with her husband Peter Murrell)
Ms Sturgeon also said she was furious upon hearing rumours she was having a lesbian affair with the French Foreign Minister, Catherine Colonna (pictured together February, 2020)
Ms Sturgeon also revealed that she felt she was being punished for her feelings of guilt when shortly after she lost her baby on January 4, 2010.
The ex-politician then called her husband and flushed their ‘baby’ down the toilet.
She said: ‘I had the presence of mind to call Peter into the bathroom and, together, we flushed our “baby” down the toilet.’
Ms Sturgeon added that she new that was her last opportunity to have a baby and added she was ‘desolate and heartbroken’ for herself and her husband.
In the tell-all memoir she revealed she would have called the baby Isla Margaret if it had been a girl, in honour of her grandmother and Peter’s mother.
The ex-First Minister also touched upon the rumoured lesbian affair she had with he French ambassador to the UK, and who would later become the French Foreign Minister, Catherine Colonna.
She confessed she was ‘furious’ at the ‘blatant lie’ but added the ‘insult’ was water off a duck’s back and said she simply tried to shrug it off.
