13 Reasons Why actress Tommy Dorfman announces she’s engaged to a woman: ‘I’ve met the person I’m going to spend the rest of my life with’

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13 Reasons Why star Tommy Dorfman has announced she’s engaged to a woman, saying: ‘I’ve met the person I’m going to spend the rest of my life with.’In February this year, it was revealed that the actress and her husband, Peter Zurkuhlen, had split after five years of marriage.Tommy, who came out as trans in July 2021, explained in a statement that they had decided to ‘redefine our relationship as friends’, explaining that transitioning for her ‘has been liberating and clarifying’.While speaking on Rachel Bilson’s podcast Broad Ideas, which she hosts with her best friend Olivia Allen, Tommy explained that she realised that she was interested in women ‘in a way that I hadn’t been aware of since high school’, and so ‘had this unresolved, unexplored thing’.‘I was like, “This is the year that I’m gonna go on some dates with girls and feel that out again, and not feel ashamed about it,”’ she said.Emphasising how she feels in her relationship, she said: ‘It’s safe.

Also not safe and like being in love is so scary. So uncomfortable, so painful. All the universal feelings of being in love that are probably the same.’Tommy admitted that she was ‘scared’ about admitting that she was attracted to women because of the ‘safe relationships’ she has with women in her life.‘Because they thought of me as a gay man, they were like, “Oh, like you’re the safest person in the world.” And then suddenly, I transition and I become a little bit more threatening, in my head,’ she said.However, the people she was ‘the most worried about cared the least’, she recalled.Tommy shared that her fiancée – who she refrained from naming – is the first woman she’s been with ‘in a very long time’, describing the experience as ‘very affirming’.She also.