Jesy Nelson says she might stay “single for ever”, but would consider a fling with a woman.
The singer, who quit girl group Little Mix in December, recently came out of an on/off relationship with Our Girl actor, Sean Sagar.
Jesy, 30, said: “With my ex, it was the first time I’d been with someone where I wasn’t in control. I fell madly in love with him.
“Let’s just say it was nothing like how I’d been treated before. I thought that’s what I wanted.
“I wanted to be kept on my toes and have that chase – and hand on my heart, I don’t ever want that again.”
Before Sean, Jesy had been in relationships with dancer Jordan Banjo, Rixton frontman Jake Roche, musician Harry James and Love Island star Chris Hughes.
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“All but one treated me so lovely, like a princess,” she told the Guardian.
“But a year down the line, I get a bit bored and they become my friend.
“I’m always more attracted to someone who keeps me on my toes, which sounds mental but that’s what excites me.”
For now, Jesy is determined to stay single but has not ruled out having a romance with a woman.
She said: “Part of me feels I should be single for ever because in relationships, you have to sacrifice so much.
“I like waking up and knowing this day is just for me and I don’t need to worry about anyone but me.
“I’m really not looking for a relationship any more.
“I wish I liked women, I really do. I said that to my sister the other day because she’s gay.
“I said, ‘Jade, I wish I loved women’, and she was like, ‘Well, just try it – you never know’. “And I said, ‘No, I love men too much’. I just love the way men smell, I love muscles, and women don’t have that, do they?”
But she added: “I’ll never rule it out, I’ll just say that.”
Jesy shot to fame after forming Little Mix with three other solo X Factor entrants in 2011.
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Jesy and her bandmates – Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards – went on to sell more than 60 million records together, but Jesy quit the band after personal trouble.
In an acclaimed BBC documentary, Jesy last year told how she was targeted by cruel online trolls. But she said: “I wouldn’t change my journey – it’s made me who I am.”
