Clementine Ford Officially Comes Out: Tells Advocate.com, 'I'm Gay'

The L Word's and The Young and the Restless star Clementine Ford officially came out as gay in an interview on Advocate.com.

Ford-Cybill Shepherd's daughter-who played Molly Kroll on the L Word, was outed in Diva UK Magazine with a headline that read "Clementine Ford Comes Out." She was also accused of having an affair with her on-screen love interest Kate Moennig, who played Shane.

While not denying she's gay but in attempting to clarify Diva UK's outing her in an interview with TV Guide Magazine, Ford felt a backlash from fans who'd thought she'd come out and immediately crawled back in the closet.

"Look, I am gay, and I just wanted there not to be this big emphasis on it," Ford tells Advocate.com's Michael Fairman of her attempt to diffuse the situation in the TV Guide Magazine interview.

She also told Fairman regarding the TV Guide interview, "There are people who get it, and get what my original meaning was.  Just as I was talking about storylines being a non-issue on The L Word; it should just be these people are gay and it's part of life.  I think with that article, and what came across as ambiguity, was actually my attempt at making it a non-issue."

While Ford told Advocate point blank that she's gay, she just as pointedly denied the rumors of an affair with Moennig. "I would never!"

Ford did say that when she landed her role on The Young and the Restless that Moennig was the first co-star she told.

The 29-year-old actress also weighed in on gay marriage and Prop 8:

"If you don’t want to have a gay marriage, don’t have one.  Don’t marry someone of the same sex, but let me do it if I want to! Ellen and Portia became poster children for gay marriage because we don’t have a lot of people that are representing this.  There are still those walls, and there are those people who say, “Hide who you are.  Be
careful. Don’t be too gay.”  I think a lot of that, and the media feeding into that, is part of the reason that Prop 8 passes."