Orange is the New Black Writer Leaves Husband for Star

Orange is the New Black is arguably one of the hottest shows around right now, and it seems that things are just as interesting off-camera as they are on-camera. Lauren Morelli is one of the hit writers for the show, working to create storylines that fans will love. Ultimately, she is one of the writers responsible for creating the romantic relationship between Alex and Piper, and she felt like a fraud the entire time. The writer, who was married to her husband two years ago, has filed for divorce on the grounds that she realized she’s gay as a writer for the show.

“I realized I was gay in fall 2012, one of my first days on the set,” she said of her feelings. And now that she’s in the middle of what is an allegedly amicable divorce, the writer and one of the lead actresses on the show are involved in a romantic relationship. Morelli is now dating Samira Wiley, who plays Poussey Washington in the series.

“I was nervous about the first love scene I’d written for Alex and Piper. I loved writing it, loved watching a tenderness emerge in their relationship where passion always seemed to be the ruling principle, but by that time, I was so deep in my own self-doubt that I constantly felt like a fraud,” Morelli said of her time writing before admitting to herself and her friends, family and husband that she was actually attracted to women instead of men.

The writer says she went through it all on the set of the hit show. She realized her real feelings, fell in love, decided to come clean to her friends and family and she’s now living her life the way she wants to live her life. She’s been seen out and about with Wiley for months now, but no one suspected their relationship was anything more than platonic.

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