Rosario Dawson has come out as LGBT+ in a new interview, after questions arose about her sexuality following a Pride month Instagram post in 2018.

In 2018, the actress shared an Instagram post of an LGBT+ singer singing the lyrics to Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You with the caption: “Happy Pride month! Sending love to my fellow LGBTQ+ homies. Keep being strong in the face of adversity. Loud & proud.”

Now, in an interview with Bustle, the actress, who is dating Cory Booker, explained that despite what people thought, she hadn’t come out as a member of the LGBT+ community then - but she is now.

“People kept saying that I [came out]... I didn’t do that,” she said. “I mean, it’s not inaccurate, but I never did come out come out. I mean, I guess I am now.”

Dawson then added: “I’ve never had a relationship in that space, so it’s never felt like an authentic calling to me.”

In the interview, the 40-year-old also opened up about her relationship with Booker, whom she started dating in 2018, and what it is like dating a politician.

“It’s the first time I felt like I had to be responsible about my choice of love, which is a challenging thing to do,” she said of dating the former presidential candidate. “If you fall in love, you fall in love. But there’s another aspect I had to consider: what this meant in [putting] a microscope on my family and particularly on my daughter.

“But in each other I think we found our person.”

This is not the first time Dawson, who adopted her daughter, Isabella, in 2014, has expressed her love for Booker.