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To most people she is still best known as the cool and analytical Agent Scully on the The X-Files.

However Gillian Anderson has shown she is far less inhibited in real life, admitting she had lesbian flings in the past.

She said she first experimented with women during her rebellious teenaged years, when she moved from England to the United States.

Gillian, 43, told popular gay and lesbian fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle magazine Out: 'I was in a relationship with a girl for a long time when I was in high school.'

But she also said she was far too attracted to men for it to something more long-lasting.

She said: 'If I had thought I was 100% gay, would it have been a different experience for me?

'Would it have been a bigger deal if shame had been attached to it and all those things that become huge life-altering issues for youngsters in that situation?

'It’s possible that my attitude around it came, on some level, from knowing that I still liked boys'

Her first flirtation with lesbianism occurred during a period of huge upheaval in her life, an extended rebellious stage in her life following her move to Michigan.

She said: 'Going from London to a small Republican town like Grand Rapids was quite a shock.
'I thought it would be a place of sunshine and happiness and candy bars.'

And she said she indulged in other relationships that seemed mostly designed to shock people.

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Gillian said: 'Based on how I chose to look, dress, behave, you know—the relationships I was in at the time were freaking people out.'

And while the actress is certainly more interested in men, she still likes to experiment with women from time to time.

Gillian, who was voted the sexiest woman in the world in 1996, said she has had other relationships women, though they have been the exception, not the rule.