Bebe Rexha plays coy about famous women she's dated, 'even though people would be living for it'

Bebe Rexha will debut her sophomore studio album Better Mistakes at midnight (May 7), but the Grammy-nominated pop star does not consider her explorative romantic history to be a mistake.

Nor should she.

"Have I gone out with girls before? Yes," Rexha told the Gay Times for a new profile by Nick Levine. "Have I dated girls? Yes, I have. And famous ones, but I'm not naming them. Even though people would be living for it–no! Have I fallen in love with a girl before? Yes. But right now, I'm in a relationship with a guy."

Rexha, who has been dating filmmaker Keyan Safyari since last year, added: "The only thing I will say is that when I'm in a relationship with a girl, it's just too emotional. The power ... I personally cannot deal with that. It's just so hard [to label my sexuality] because everybody wants to put people in boxes and I don't like boxes, as you can tell with my music. Like, I don't like boxes whatsoever."

Rexha, unfortunately, was made to defend her comments on Twitter: