Queer star Keke Palmer updates her sexual identity, 'I'm almost 100% sure I'm asexual'

Palmer had previously come out as queer during a guest appearance on “The Best Podcast Ever with Raven and Miranda,” in 2023.

“There is like an unsaid thing that can make you feel — and because I liked guys too, I was kinda like, ‘Well, we don’t have to talk about it,’” she explained at the time. “Because I like guys too, it was like that’s another extra thing that no one really has to know about. I don’t really have to live out.”

But at the age of 17, she began to accept her queer identity. “I ultimately just feel like the acceptance of that part of myself, in general, was a part of my process of being able to have love in my life,” she said. At the time, Palmer was still in a relationship with her former partner, Darius Jackson, with whom she shares a son.

Palmer’s discussion about her sexuality has always been one of evolution and acceptance, and it's a journey that she has invited fans into, as she did again with the latest realization of her likely asexuality. She ended the post by encouraging her fans to weigh in. “Well go on’ share in the comments,” she wrote, “the good, bad, inbetween, I just wanna chit chat!”

The post currently has over 140,000 likes and nearly 2,700 comments, which were overwhelmingly positive, many of which welcomed Palmer to the ace community.