Kristen Stewart has been dating for Alicia Cargile for more than a year. Alicia is the only person Kristen has stepped out with publicly in the past year, and by all accounts, they live together, vacation together, party together and they are a couple in every way. Most media outlets have been hesitant to refer to Alicia as anything other than “Kristen’s gal-pal” or “Kristen’s roommate” or whatever. But it always felt like Kristen’s actions were pretty clear – they were dating, they were together, they were girlfriends. And now Kristen’s mom Jules Stewart has come right out and said it.

Twilight actress Kristen Stewart has found new love – with her personal assistant Alicia Cargile. The star’s mum Jules Stewart has given her blessing to the relationship, which comes two years after Kristen, 25, split from long-term love Robert Pattinson, 29. Jules, 55, told the Sunday Mirror she has met Alicia and that the couple are very happy together.

She added: “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.”

Jules, who also has a Hollywood career as a script supervisor, added: “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.”

Martial arts nut Kristen’s relationship with Twilight co-star R-Patz ended after she was seen kissing married Rupert Sanders, 44, who directed her in Snow White and the Huntsman. Since then she has kept her love life under wraps. Meanwhile Pattinson is now said to be engaged to singer FKA twigs, 27 – and it was claimed this week he will even invite Kristen to his wedding.

Jules said of Kristen’s new love: “They were a great couple, but she’s 25 years old and I’d like to see her have a lot more life experience before she chooses someone to settle down with. I’m very sad that Kristen and Robert didn’t have a chance to be alone together, they had to have the whole world with them and all the public stuff ruined everything, life became overwhelming. But Kristen has learnt to handle her emotions and deal with her problems through the martial arts.”

[From The Daily Mirror]

… Through the martial arts? Kristen got over Sparkles by learning martial arts. Sure. As for Jules coming right out and saying that Kristen has a girlfriend… as I said, we really have known that for a while. It also feels like Jules is saying Kristen self-identifies as bisexual too – “I accept my daughter loves women and men.” So when Kristen dated Robert Pattinson, it was real, just as her romantic relationship with Alicia is real. Will people accept that at face value? Or will there still be conspiracies about Kristen’s “real” sexuality?

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