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Hillary Clinton shoots down lesbian rumours saying she has never even been tempted: 'I actually like men'

Clinton also told Stern about her first encounter with husband Bill, saying, "He was so handsome, really handsome. He looked like a Greek god. He was very attractive."

BY NAMRATA TRIPATHI

UPDATED JAN 22, 2020

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on Wednesday, denied the rumors of her being a lesbian and insisted that she is a heterosexual woman who has "never even been tempted" to have a same-sex relationship. The former first lady made the statement while appearing on Howard Stern's radio show.

Clinton, while addressing Stern on the show, said that "contrary to what you may hear, I actually like men." The host had asked her to deny the rumors point-blank: "Raise your right hand—you've never had a lesbian affair." To which Clinton responded with, saying: "Never! Never! Never!"

Clinton, who married former President Bill Clinton in 1975, also told Stern about her first encounter with Bill, saying "he was so handsome, really handsome. He looked like a Greek god. He was very attractive."

25 Jul 1996: Hillary Clinton, left, and Bill Clinton look to one another as the USA women's 4x200m freestyle relay team wins the gold medal at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center at the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. \ Mandatory Credit: Simon Bruty /Allsport (Getty Images)

Clinton's denial of being a lesbian came after her husband's alleged lover, Gennifer Flowers, told the Daily Mail that Bill was aware Hillary was bisexual and did not mind her sexuality. "I just know what Bill told me," Flower told the outlet in 2013, "and that was that he was aware that Hillary was bisexual and he didn’t care. He should know." Flowers, later in a tell-all book, claimed: "He said Hillary had eaten more p***y than he had."

Another of Bill Clinton's alleged paramours, Sally Miller, told the outlet in 2016 that "Hillary is a lesbian." Miller, onetime Miss America finalist, said: "I take him at his word and he told me she liked females more than men. She was the child of a more progressive community. She was exposed to all the liberals, she was a flower child. This is what Bill told me."

The former Secretary of State's views on gay marriage have changed over the years, where she once insisted while running for the Senate seat in New York that "a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman."

Years later, she was recorded saying in a video released by the Human Rights Campaign gay lobby group in 2013 that "L.G.B.T. Americans ... deserve the rights of citizenship. That includes marriage."