--- title: Kristen Stewart Talks About Alicia Cargile Relationship description: Kristen Stewart has opened up about her sexuality and revealed for the first time that she has a girlfriend. canonical: https://time.com/4426402/kristen-stewart-alicia-cargile-girlfriend/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-27T16:20:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:00.880Z og:title: Kristen Stewart Says She’s ‘So Much Happier’ Dating a Woman og:description: 'Finally, I can feel again' og:url: https://time.com/4426402/kristen-stewart-alicia-cargile-girlfriend/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte88a91abeaba8d76/69889fbf5f570f112db21f34/kristen-stewart-alicia-cargile-girlfriend.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4791 og:image:height: 2695 og:image:alt: "Cafe Society" Photocall - The 69th Annual Cannes Film Festival og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kristen Stewart Says She’s ‘So Much Happier’ Dating a Woman twitter:description: 'Finally, I can feel again' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte88a91abeaba8d76/69889fbf5f570f112db21f34/kristen-stewart-alicia-cargile-girlfriend.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kristen Stewart Says She’s ‘So Much Happier’ Dating a Woman > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images) CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 11: Kristen Stewart attends the "Cafe Society" Photocall during The 69th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 11, 2016 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images) Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images by [Dave Quinn / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Dave Quinn / People Contributor Jul 27, 2016 4:20 PM UTC [Kristen Stewart](http://www.people.com/people/kristen%5Fstewart) opened up about her sexuality and revealed for the first time that she has a girlfriend in [_Elle UK_‘s September issue](http://www.elleuk.com/life-and-culture/culture/articles/a31279/kristen-stewart-elle-uk-september-cover-2016/). The 26-year-old actress talked about her on-again, off-again relationship with film producer Alicia Cargile in a ranging and unusually candid interview. “Right now I’m just really in love with my girlfriend,” Stewart told the magazine. “We’ve broken up a couple of times and gotten back together, and this time I was like, ‘Finally, I can feel again.'” Stewart and Cargile have been spotted out together, including as they returned from the [2016 Cannes Film Festival](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,MediaAwardsEventsTax:CannesInternationalFilmFestival,00.html). The _Café Society_ actress also told _Elle UK_ that she’s more open about her relationship now that she’s dating a girl. “When I was dating a guy I was hiding everything that I did because everything personal felt like it was immediately trivialized, so I didn’t like it,” she explained. “We were turned into these characters and placed into this ridiculous comic book, and I was like, ‘That’s mine. You’re making my relationship something that it’s not.’ I didn’t like that.” “But then it changed when I started dating a girl,” she continued. “I was like, ‘Actually, to hide this provides the implication that I’m not down with it or I’m ashamed of it, so I had to alter how I approached being in public. It opened my life up and I’m so much happier.” Read the full interview in [_Elle UK_](http://www.elleuk.com/), on sale August 3. _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/kristen-stewart-opens-up-girlfriend-alicia-cargile) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4426402/kristen-stewart-alicia-cargile-girlfriend/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4426402/kristen-stewart-alicia-cargile-girlfriend/"},"headline":"Kristen Stewart Says She’s ‘So Much Happier’ Dating a Woman","datePublished":"2016-07-27T16:20:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:00.880Z","description":"'Finally, I can feel again'","url":"https://time.com/4426402/kristen-stewart-alicia-cargile-girlfriend/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte88a91abeaba8d76/69889fbf5f570f112db21f34/kristen-stewart-alicia-cargile-girlfriend.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dave Quinn / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte88a91abeaba8d76/69889fbf5f570f112db21f34/kristen-stewart-alicia-cargile-girlfriend.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Cafe Society\" Photocall - The 69th Annual Cannes Film Festival","caption":"\"Cafe Society\" Photocall - The 69th Annual Cannes Film Festival","creditText":"Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4426402/kristen-stewart-alicia-cargile-girlfriend/","name":"Kristen Stewart Says She’s ‘So Much Happier’ Dating a Woman"}}]}] ```