Overview
- Anderson told an Australian interviewer that she identifies as pansexual, a term for attraction regardless of a person’s gender.
- She described past relationships with women, including a secretive teenage relationship with an older girl, and said the person she considers her life partner is male.
- More: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous is the follow-up to her 2024 book Want and collects anonymous accounts about desire; the book is scheduled for release in mid-September.
- Anderson credited her role as sex therapist Jean Milburn on Netflix’s Sex Education with making her more open about sexuality and with shaping the books’ focus on women’s fantasies and experiences.
- Press coverage has noted longstanding, unconfirmed media links to writer Peter Morgan and observers say the disclosure could renew public discussion about sexual labels and how public figures describe evolving identities.