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Rosalía details pressure to define her sexuality after brief Hunter Schafer romance
Rosalía made a rare remark about her love life when asked whether she felt the need to publicly define her sexuality following her romance with Hunter Schafer.
When asked if she felt compelled to come out as queer or otherwise, the Spanish singer, 32, told Elle: 'No, I do not pressure myself.'
'I think of freedom. That's what guides me,' she explained of how she navigates dating in the public eye.
Following the end of their five-month relationship back in 2019, the two-time Grammy winner and Schafer have remained close friends and, recently, became colleagues.
Earlier this year, the amicable exes recently teamed up to shoot scenes for the long-awaited third season of Euphoria, in which is set to premiere in 2026.
In 2024, Schafer, 26, confirmed to GQ that they 'have really beautiful friendship' after splitting romantically.
'She's family no matter what,' the actress insisted, noting Rosalía gave her permission to discuss their past relationship after 'so much speculation for so long.'
'Part of us just wants to get it over with, and then another part is like, 'It's none of anybody's f**king business!' … It's something I'm happy to share. And I think she feels that way too,' the Hunger Games insisted.
Rosalía hasn't explicitly labeled her sexuality, but has previously been linked to The Bear's Jeremy Allen White and was engaged to Rauw Alejandro.
In July 2023, she called off her engagement after more than three years together.
Following their breakup, she admitted that it wasn't 'an easy moment' on Instagram after crying on stage at Lollapalooza Paris.
Meanwhile, Schafer, who identifies as both bisexual and pansexual, has also dated Dominic Fike and Massima Desire.
Schafer appears to be currently single after saying she was healing from her breakup with Fike, who she accused of being unfaithful, last year.
While appearing on Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast, Schafer revealed how her last relationship 'fundamentally changed' her.
'I think of freedom. That's what guides me,' she explained of how she navigates dating in the public eye
'You will find cis people who do know and just get it, and that's what was so amazing about my ex-boyfriend, was from the get-go, he saw me exactly for who I was, which is amazing,' she recalled.
Schafer continued: 'This is a straight guy who is in the music scene, too, and we're in a public relationship, he's dating a trans woman. He's completely straight; he's only dated cis women before.'
During their relationship, the star praised Fike for 'toting' her around and being 'happy to be' her boyfriend to the world, despite the 'nasty s**t' people said about him.
'He didn't care at all. … I wasn't anxious, but I was also head over heels in love and happy to be doing it,' she remembered.
Despite his endearing qualities, the performer said her ex 'was not perfect' and he 'cheated' on her.
'He's talked about this, too—in his songs, he writes about it—so it's fine to be talking about it today and it's part of my truth. But that fundamentally changed me as a person,' she said.
