Ingrid Nilsen, who has 3.3 million subscribers on her YouTube channel, has publicly come out as gay in a new post.
A visibly shaken Nilsen looked like she was going to explode with emotions as soon as she blurted it out, seeming like she’s wanted to tell her fans for a while now.
“I'm gay. It feels so good to say that!" she said, breaking down in tears, Huffington Post reports.
"I'm shaking right now because this moment is real and it's here. And I've been waiting for this.”
She went on to stress how important her fans are to her, just as important as “friends and people who are close to me.”
"I want to sit down and talk to you and have this conversation just like I've had this conversation” with them, she said.
She said she’s “always known” she was gay, even as early as the age of 4, but the process of coming out has been “complicated.”
Watch her explain it in her own words below:
screenshot via Ingrid Nilsen's YouTube video