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August Alsina Opens Up About His Sexuality in New Interview

The singer doesn’t want his sexuality to be labeled because he said God exposed him to so many different types of people.

August Alsina opened up about his sexuality after he made headlines for introducing the world to a man he said taught him about "loving and healing" in the season finale of “The Surreal Life” in 2022.

During a recent appearance on Nick Cannon’s “Counsel Culture” podcast, the “No Love” singer refused to label who he chooses to love, saying that God exposed him to so many different types of people. "To be honest with you, bro, it's not even me that's opening my heart," Alsina said when he was asked about loving another man. "It's that power that's higher than myself. I always say that the greatest gift that God could have ever given me was exposure. To expose me to so many different kinds of people, places, things."

He added, "So it's like, when people want you to define yourself as whether you're gay, straight, bisexual, or whatever it is you was just talking about, love is much more complex than that and has much more depth. So for me, I'm just the kind of person that, because love is a language, I'm fluent in love when it speaks to me."

Check out the clip of the conversation below.

Alsina’s appearance on the podcast comes on the heels of his interview with  Complex in 2020, where he revealed that he was in a relationship with Jada Pinkett Smith, saying that Will Smith gave him “his blessing” since they both agreed on having an open marriage. Shortly after, the “Girls Trip” actress went on the “Red Table Talk” to confirm the relationship, revealing that she and Will went through a “difficult” separation four and a half years ago “I was in a lot of pain and I was very broken,” she said. “I just wanted to feel good. It had been so long since I felt good.”

In 2022, the Texas native addressed Jada in a song called “Shake the World. “I heard I was canceled / Well, let’s speak on that,” Alsina sang. “Red dot on my back / I became a target / And I’m flawed but flawless / That’s what makes me August.”

He also used a Beyoncé lyric to reference her relationship with Will, singing, “I heard it’s some shit that’s about to go down when you got a billion dollars on the elevator / Well, of course some shit was bound to go down when you tangled up with the world’s favorite.”

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