Samira Wiley, who bid farewell to Orange is the New Black as Poussey Washington, shared the happy news by posting a selfie with her fiancée. The two women looked thoroughly happy. While Morelli looks at Wiley, she shows off her new engagement ring!
The two women were openly gay for a while. Lauren Morelli divorced Steve Basilone 2014, after being married for two years. In a public statement, Morelli said that she realized she was gay while writing and working on Orange is the New Black.
She decided to come out to her family and friends. Morelli confessed that she felt alive once she came clean about the reality. She would be in the writers’ room and feel stuck in the middle of two truths.
Things are easier for her now since her narrative fits in with the fictional stories that they work on for the popular series. Morelli’s lengthy piece titled. ‘While Writing for Orange is the New Black,’ I Realized I Am Gay’ was published in Identities.Mic. At the end of the essay, Lauren Morelli asks her supporters to embrace their stories and assures them that it will be worth it.
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