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me: how am i single

me: *emotionally detached, picky af, doesn’t go out at all, has disgusting habits, too shy to talk to anyone they find cute, etc.*

me: how am i single

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I'm bored 🙃 does someone want to talk?💃

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Thank you Ramirez Tran Salon for my gorgeous new color!!!

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Betty Cooper fan art

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By Cole.

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By Cole. Again.

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Lili why did you call Beronica "fanfiction" and said "it wasn't our show" despite filming a kiss scene with Camilla?

I’ve avoided dealing with the backlash that I got from this interview for a while now because of how upset it has made me.Having people call me homophobic is absolutely heartbreaking considering I have been a huge supporter of gay rights ever since I was old enough to understand what the word “gay” meant.

In this interview that I had back in January, I was asked about Beronica and if Betty and Veronica were ever going to be together on our show. I said “our show isn’t fan fiction,” when responding… and I understand how that was taken the wrong way. It was an naive thing to say– I did not use the right words to get across what I meant to say. In no way did I mean that having two girls in a relationship was fan fiction. Showing a lesbian/gay couple on tv is something that I whole heartedly support. The truth of the matter is– in the context of the question “will Betty and Veronica be romantically involved?” I called it fan fiction. Not the right words– but to me, calling Beronica fan fiction didn’t mean that I was saying a f/f relationship was unusual or never going to happen. I only meant that having Betty and Veronica in a relationship on Riverdale would technically be something that resulted from fans banding together to push for that story. Because the direction of our show at that point had portrayed Betty and Veronica as two straight women. So that’s what the words “fan fiction” meant to me. Something that the fans wanted that wasn’t actually happening on the show. And I knew at the time that Betty and Veronica were not going to be romantically involved.

Which also leads me to address people calling me a queer-baiter. A term I wasn’t familiar with until people started telling me that I was one. I had tweeted things about Beronica… how we were going to have more of it in our show. I didn’t understand why people were saying I was queerbaiting by showing my support of Beronica. I soon realized that the name Beronica wasn’t platonic or representative as a friendship, but rather a name meant to describe Betty and Veronica as a romantic couple. So by saying our show was going to have more Beronica, I was unintentionally promoting Betty and Veronica as a gay couple on our show instead of the friends that they are. I was unintentionally telling our fans that we would be portraying a lesbian relationship because I didn’t understand the term correctly. I used it in the wrong way— using Beronica as just the B & V best friend duo rather than a f/f relationship.

And truly, if our writers decided to have Betty and Veronica in a relationship, I would completely support it. But it is my job as an actress to follow the script and play the role as the writers/creator have intended it to be played. And with our show Riverdale, Betty is romantically interested in men at this point. Not to say it couldn’t change in the future… but I have no control over that. All I can do is state my support for whatever they choose to do with Betty’s sexuality.

Truly, I have felt incredibly hurt that people would call me homophobic because of an interview. I didn’t want to address the situation because I felt so angry that people would say something like that about me which I knew wasn’t true. But I realized that it was easy for people to call me homophobic from just an interview because they don’t know who I am. They’ve never met me or spent time with me. No one out there calling me that knows my history… that I have grown up supporting gay rights… I wrote my high school senior paper on my support of gay marriage… one of my best friends in the world is pansexual. I openly support and embrace the LGBT community in my life as much as I can and on a daily basis. And it hurts that people berate me for choosing the wrong words in an interview. But I hope that this post has brought some clarity to the situation and everyone can see where my heart lies. I don’t want people to believe something about me that simply isn’t true.

I hope anyone who was offended by my interview can accept my apology. X

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Aura reading

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