Kristen Stewart says Donald Trump's social media posts about her cheating on Robert Pattinson inspired her to come out

• Kristen Stewart reflected on the events that led to her coming out as gay on "Saturday Night Live."
• She said that Trump's criticism of her inspired her to address her sexuality, she told Rolling Stone.

Kristen Stewart has said that Donald Trump's past criticism of her inspired her to address her sexuality for the first time while hosting "Saturday Night Live" in 2017.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, the Academy Award-nominated actor said the decision to come out on national television was a "very shoot-from-the-hip moment."

She recalled that she had been sitting with a group of "SNL" writers before filming the episode and thinking that the monologue they had planned out was "boring" until someone brought up Trump's posts about her cheating on her "Twilight" costar, Robert Pattinson.

"Robert Pattinson should not take back Kristen Stewart," Trump posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, in 2012 after paparazzi photographs of Stewart kissing director Rupert Sanders were released, causing a media firestorm.

Trump's post continued: "She cheated on him like a dog and will do it again — just watch. He can do much better!"

At the time, Stewart, then 22, was in a three-year relationship with her on-screen vampire boyfriend. She received the brunt of the public backlash over the affair with her "Snow White and the Huntsman" director, who was 19 years her senior and married with young children.

"He's mad at me for cheating on my boyfriend? Little does he know..." Stewart remembered telling the "SNL" writer's room at the time.

This resulted in her memorable onstage quip: "Donald, if you didn't like me then, you're probably really not going to like me now because I'm hosting 'SNL' and I'm, like, so gay, dude."

Stewart then shared a few choice words about Trump, who is in the running to be the Republican presidential nominee again this year.

"Of course, he had to weigh in on my tarring and feathering. It's like, 'What is this 20-year-old who has no idea about life doing to this man?'" Stewart said.

"He's such a little baby," she continued, adding: "Fuck you, bitch!"

While speaking to Variety in January, the "Love Lies Bleeding" star said that prior to her "Saturday Night Live" appearance, she had not been "hiding" her relationship with her girlfriend at the time, model Stella Maxwell.

"I was so openly out with my girlfriend for years at that point. I'm like, 'I'm a pretty knowable person.'"

Stewart is now engaged to screenwriter Dylan Meyer, whom she has been in a relationship with since August 2019.