Sometimes you don’t need to officially come out, you just need a mother who’ll tell the world for you. There have been rumours previously about Kristen Stewart’s sexuality, but her publicly known dalliances have been with men, including a very high profile relationship with Robert Pattinson and a fling with (married) Snow White & The Huntsman director Rupert Sanders. Now though it seems she’s dating a woman, and it’s her mom who’s apparently confirmed it to the world.

Her mother, Jules Stewart, says (assuming we trust the Sunday Mirror’s quotes), “What’s not to be accepting about her now having a girlfriend? She’s happy. She’s my daughter, I’m just her mom so she knows I would accept her choices. I’ve met Kristen’s new girlfriend, I like her. What’s not to accept? She’s a lovely girl.”

She adds, “I feel like people need to be free to love whoever they want. I accept my daughter loves women and men. It’s OK to be who you are in my world. We all choose our friends so we should be free to choose our lovers. People are good to do whatever they like as long as they’re not hurting people or breaking the law. I have gay friends, family members, I’m accepting of people, we are all free to choose who we want to love.”

Kristen is apparently dating her personal assistant, Alicia Cargile. Speculation about them grew in April, after they were snapped looking very couply at Coachella.

The actress herself hasn’t commented, which isn’t surprising after the huge media pressure her relationship with Pattinson came under.