TORONTO — Actress Maria Bello came out Sunday, revealing she is in a relationship with a woman.
The 46-year-old star of films like Grown Ups and this year’s Prisoners wrote an essay for the New York Times in which she opened up about falling in love with her best friend Clare Munn, chair of The Communication Group.
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“She was one of the most beautiful, charming, brilliant and funny people I had ever met, but it didn’t occur to me that we could perhaps choose to love each other romantically,” wrote Bello.
“What had I been waiting for all of these years? She is the person I like being with the most, the one with whom I am most myself.”
Bello, whose credits include the made-in-Ontario films A History of Violence and Assault on Precinct 13, said her parents are supportive of the new relationship.
She said her son Jackson, 12, told her: “Mom, love is love, whatever you are.”
Bello wrote: “I loved him so much for saying that.”
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Bello and Munn are raising Jackson with his father, producer Dan McDermott, actively involved.
“I love our modern family. Maybe, in the end, a modern family is just a more honest family.”
Still, the actress admitted she is worried about how her same-sex relationship will affect her career.
“I have never defined myself by whom I slept with, but I know others have and would.”
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