Emily Hampshire tells Demi Lovato the 'Schitt's Creek' wine scene helped her understand she was pansexual

In every relationship with an age gap, one must ask oneself, “Am I the Sarah Paulson, or am I the Holland Taylor?” That’s exactly what happened between singer Demi Lovato and actor (“not actress,” she says) Emily Hampshire when the “Sorry Not Sorry” singer slid into her DMs.

During the latest episode of Demi’s podcast 4D with Demi Lovato, Emily, who played Stevie on Schitt’s Creek, laughed when revealing that Demi was very flirty from the start.

"You slid in my DMs and you said, 'Hey girl, I like you on the show. We should kick it some time,'" Emily laughed. 

"And then you said below it, 'And by kick it, I mean go on a date. I find you attractive.' You made it clear it was a date. And I loved that because I was like, 'Sometimes that's confusing' … I'm decades older than you, so 'kick it,' I was looking it up."

"You also said that!" Demi chimed in. "You were like, 'I'm decades older, I don't think we'll find the same things funny.' I was like, 'Mm excuse you' and I sent you a really good meme."  

Emily continued, "You also said, 'Think of Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor.' And then right after you were like, 'I don't mean you're the Holland Taylor!' I thought it was the funniest thing in the whole world because I was a Holland Taylor in that situation. Proud to be."

We’d all be lucky to be Holland Taylor, tbh. 

During the hour-long podcast episode, the pair spoke frankly about their sexuality and growing up trying to figure things out. The Canadian Schitt’s Creek star revealed that it was a particular scene in the Emmy-winning CBC comedy that helped her realize she was pansexual – something she’d never understood before.

As she was filming that scene with Dan Levy, star and creator of the show, she explains that “[David Rose] says, ultimately he likes the wine, not the label and that he’s pansexual. I had never heard the word pansexual before.”

 “I’ve always considered myself super knowledgeable about LGBTQ+ stuff just because everybody in my life, my friends, are all mostly LGBTQ+ people, but I didn’t know this.”

She continued, “Cut to about five years later. I was dating someone and I saw on these message boards people being like, ‘Is Stevie a lesbian?’ ‘Is Emily gay?’ ‘Who’s Emily?' I said to Dan, I was like, ‘This is so weird. What am I?’ Because I truly just fell in love with a person and where they were on the gender spectrum did not matter to me. And since then it really doesn’t matter to me. I have to like the person. I’m really attracted to a person’s vibe.”

“He was like, ‘You’re pansexual. Don’t you watch our show?'”

“I believe in visibility. I know how important it is,” she continued. “On the other hand, my utopian world is like, ‘You don’t have to identify yourself as anything.’ I don’t have to say I’m pansexual, bisexual, anything. I get why we have to now. But also with pronouns, my utopian world would be like, ‘We’re just human.'”

Emily also credits Demi for helping her come to terms with an eating disorder that affected her during the filming of her show. She went into detail about how her food restrictions affected her time on the show.

“I’d gotten my first TV show in Canada and I did the first season. I was normal. Came back for the second season and I had lost a significant amount of weight and everybody said I looked great. Wardrobe was like, ‘Oh we can have these clothes on you, and these clothes,'” she recounted.

 “But by the end of the season, they weren’t saying I looked so great. I couldn’t think anymore. I couldn’t remember anything. I was crying all the time and then I got really depressed because my brain wasn’t being fed at all.” Emily continues to say that when she went to work on another show, she began eating again and they wrote her weight gain into the show, something that embarrassed her and exacerbated her recovery.

Demi famously spoke up after their near-fatal overdose about their eating disorder and the food restrictions placed on thier diet by their former management team.

“If I was in my hotel room at night, they would take the phone out of the hotel room so I couldn’t call room service. If there was fruit in my room, they took it out because that’s extra sugar. We’re not talking about brownies and cookies and candies,” Demi recalled in 2020 to Ellen Degeneres.

They continued, “For many years I didn’t have a birthday cake. I had a watermelon cake where you cut your watermelon into the shape of a cake and you put fat-free whipped cream on top and that was your cake.”

The new 4D with Demi Lovato episode is up for viewing now, and is full of so many other interesting topics, like breakups (hello Max Ehrich), being Canadian, Jane Fonda, the patriarchy, exploring relationships with women, and more.

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