Reese Witherspoon admits that she had no idea what being gay was while growing up in Nashville, Tennessee.
No one spoke to me abut sexuality when I was a teenager, the 44-year-old actress revealed during a conversation with Regina King for Variety. I didnt understand what homosexuality was. My grandparents didnt explain it; my parents didnt explain it.
I had to learn [about it] from somebody I met on an audition in Los Angeles, she added.
The Oscar winner reflected on her Southern upbringing when she appeared on Chelsea Handlers show in 2006.
I grew up, obviously, in the South and there is amazing, wonderful connectivity and people are loving and communitive, Witherspoon said. But there is a tiny aspect of it, people [that] use parts of the Bible in order to express their intolerance and their hate and they manipulate it.
