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“I’m just happy for her,” Guadagnino, 35, told PEOPLE Wednesday at the season 7 premiere ofJersey Shore: Family Vacation. “She’s really cool.”
In December, Windey called a romance with Guadagnino“a possibility.”Come April, she described what they had as “kind of a thing“ and admitted they’d still been talking.
“He was like, sliding into my DMs the other day and I’m like, we’re past that,” Windey said onKaitlyn Bristowe’sOff the Vinepodcast. “I’m like, ‘Are you flirting with me?’ And he’s like, ‘Um, yeah. Now I’m nervous.’ And I was like, ‘Just tell me you like me.’ And he was like, ‘I like you.'”
Guadagnino clarified that he and Windey “never dated.”
“It was just a rumor off of, like, two Instagram emojis,” he told PEOPLE at New York City’s Hard Rock Hotel.
Vinny Guadagnino and ‘Dancing with the Stars’ partner Koko Iwaski.ABC/Christopher Willard
Windey shared the news about her new relationship onThe Viewon Tuesday.
“I always just want to live my truth, and my story,” Windey said. “And so I have been seeing someone for a couple months, and I’ve been keeping it a little more private because it is like a bigger story and a bigger conversation, because I’m dating a girl!”
The Viewco-hostSunny Hostinsaid she “didn’t see that twist coming.”
“I don’t think anyone did,” Windey said. “No, not even me.”
Windey felt that, after viewers watched her date 32 men onThe Bachelorettealongside co-leadRachel Recchia, she wanted everyone to know the truth about her life today.
“Knowing how much people really care, I just want to be honest,” Windey said. “I don’t want to like, live and not be living my full truth. I don’t want to do that to myself. I don’t want to do it to my girlfriend. I don’t want to do it to other people who really care about me and feel like they know me.”
Joy Beharasked Windey if she only plans to date girls going forward.
“I think so,” Windey responded. “I think it’s just my girl … she’s the best.”
Windey also posted a carousel of photos with her girlfriend onInstagramTuesday. “Told you I’m a girls girl!!” she captioned the post.
The reality star received support from GLAAD, the world’s largest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization.
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