'Orange Is the New Black' Star Samira Wiley Engaged to Writer Lauren Morelli
One of our favorite Litchfield inmates is getting hitched: "Orange Is the New Black" star Samira Wiley is engaged to "OITNB" staff writer Lauren Morelli.
Wiley announced the big news on Instagram on Tuesday, sharing a sweet snap of her and Morelli smiling together as Wiley flashes a gorgeous engagement ring on her left hand. The actress captioned the post with a simple, "Yes."
The couple began dating in 2014 after meeting on the set of "Orange" in 2012. Morelli was a newlywed at the time, but while writing for exes Piper (Taylor Schilling) and Alex (Laura Prepon), came to the realization that she was gay. In an essay for Mic penned in May 2014, Morelli talked about the decision to divorce her husband after her work on "Orange" helped her come to terms with her true sexuality.
"I was nervous about the first love scene I'd written for Alex and Piper," Morelli wrote in her essay. "I'd 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. I was sure it was bleeding into my writing. How could it not? I was married to a man, but I wasn't straight."
The writer also discussed falling in love with a woman on set, later revealed to be Wiley. The pair took their relationship public in 2014.
Congrats to the happy couple!
[via: Samira Wiley]
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