Former ‘SNL’ Star Sasheer Zamata Comes Out As Queer: “I Guess I’m One Of Those Late-In-Life Lesbians”

Sasheer Zamata is opening up about coming out.

In a new interview with Them, the Agatha All Along star shared that while she’s “out” in her own life and does “keep [her] personal life kind of private,” she doesn’t “want [her] identity to be private.”

“I guess I’m one of those late-in-life lesbians,” she teased. “I just feel very comfortable and confident in my life.”

Zamata pointed out how since departing Saturday Night Live in 2017, she “kept getting cast as queer women.”

“I played a lesbian on Woke. I played a lesbian on Tuca & Bertie. A lesbian on Last O.G,” she noted. “I kept getting these roles. And this is before I myself was figuring out my identity. I was like, ’Whoa, what are these casting directors seeing that I’m not seeing?'”

With regard to her public coming out, she noted that while “no one asks straight people about their journey of discovery,” she” felt like if [she] didn’t say anything, [she’d] be ignoring a part of [herself], and that doesn’t feel very good.”

“But yeah, I’ve definitely had thoughts of, not necessarily keeping it a secret, but [that] there’s no need to say anything about it,” she added.

Saying that she doesn’t “want to be the representative of anything,” since she “just got here,” she clarified that she does “want to be a part of the community.”

Other recent credits of Zamata’s include Waco: The Aftermath, Unfrosted, and Exploding Kittens. She also recently competed on Season 3 of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire alongside her Best Friends podcast co-host Nicole Byer, whom she described as her “soulmate” in her discussion with Them.

“I feel very, very lucky that I have a person in my life who fully understands everything,” she gushed.

Episodes 1 and 2 of Agatha All Along hit Disney+ on Wednesday, Sept. 18.