The Euphoria star spoke candidly on the Call Her Daddy podcast
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Hunter Schafer has opened up about being cheated on by her ex-partner Dominic Fike and how it “fundamentally changed” her perspective as a trans woman.
The Euphoria actor spoke candidly about her past relationship on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast where she detailed how she was once “head over heels” for Fike until she checked through his phone and discovered that he was unfaithful.
“It’s part of why the relationship ended, I got cheated on for the first time,” she said.
“He’s talked about this, too—in his songs, he writes about it—so it’s fine to be talking about it today and it’s part of my truth. But that fundamentally changed me as a person. And it was this whole process of realizing that cheating has nothing to do with you at all. It has everything to do with that person and whatever kind of pain they’re in, or whatever they’re dealing with.”
Schafer discussed how Fike, who she met on the set of HBO’s Euphoria, was her first monogamous relationship and her first relationship with a man. Previously she had only been in polyamorous relationships with queer people.
“You will find cis people who do know and just get it, and that’s what was so amazing about my ex-boyfriend, was from the get-go, he saw me exactly for who I was, which is amazing. This is a straight guy who is in the music scene, too, and we’re in a public relationship, he’s dating a trans woman. He’s completely straight; he’s only dated cis women before,” Schafer explained to Cooper.
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After the split in 2023, Schafer explained how being trans complicated her healing process.
“As a trans woman with a man who has never dated [a trans woman] before, then it’s [in] my mind. I knew it wasn’t the truth … but my brain, because of the way I’ve been socialized as a trans woman, and it’s been this crux in my life of, like, why life has been so hard sometimes. I’m like ‘Oh my god, is this it?’”
Schafer also talked about her first relationship with a trans woman.
“It was my entrance into sex, romance, all of that stuff. All of those were firsts in that relationship, and it was with another trans woman—thank god,” said the star.
“She kind of showed me the ropes because dating as a trans person—it’s complicated. To know in my first relationship and in my first really being in this mutual love thing, first time having sex, that I got to do it with somebody who completely understands my gender—I’m so thankful for it.”
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