In August 2015, Lily-Rose Depp made headlines for taking part in iO Tillett Wright’s “Self Evident Truths” project, a campaign featuring 10,000 people across the U.S. who don’t identify entirely as straight. “She decided she wanted to be in @selfevidentproject because she falls somewhere on the vast spectrum, and I couldn’t be happier to welcome her to the family,” Tillett Wright wrote on a since-deleted Instagram post. To many, Lily-Rose’s decision to be featured was her way of coming out.
But that’s not how she saw it. “That was really misconstrued, that whole thing … I was literally doing it just to say that you don’t have to label your sexuality,” she told Nylon in February 2016. Lily-Rose explained that labeling her preference felt limiting and even dishonest, considering she couldn’t know who she might be attracted to in the future. “If you like something one day then you do, and if you like something else the other day, it’s whatever,” she said. “You don’t have to label yourself, because it’s not set in stone.”
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When the public labeled her as gay for her choice, it accomplished exactly the opposite of what she was trying to do. “It’s so fluid,” she explained. The previous November, her father, Johnny Depp, praised her for not being afraid to embrace that side of herself. “The only thing you can do as a parent is to offer support. And I do,” he told the Daily Mail.
