Queen Latifah on the rumors

I enjoy Queen Latifah in movies – especially in Living Out Loud, Beauty Shop and Hairspray. And I totally respect her right to say or not say anything about her personal life but the in her new interview with Essence Magazine, she certainly doesn’t clear any of the speculation up.

“They want to make up stories and make me gay all the time and it’s like, ‘Keep running with it,’” she said. “I’ve definitely been annoyed by it, but I learned a long time ago that it was pointless to say anything. Everybody else can do the reading; I’ll do the living.”

“My personal life is personal and it’s really not for everyone else,” Latifah also said. “With what I do for a living, I have to share a lot of myself with a lot of people, but I’m not going to share everything.”

The Oscar-nominated star did speak about something she had previously kept private: she was sexually abused when she was young.

“He violated me,” she said of her alleged abuser. “I never told anybody; I just buried it as deeply as I could and kept people at an arm’s distance. I never really let a person get too close to me. I could have been married years ago, but I had a commitment issue.”