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'Younger' Star Nico Tortorella Opens Up About Partner Bethany Meyers' Abortion

"It’s a painful [process], emotionally, physically, and spiritually" - by Isabelle Truman
  • 18 Sep 2019
'Younger' Star Nico Tortorella Opens Up About Partner Bethany Meyers' Abortion

In a new memoir, Younger star Nico Tortorella opens up about their journey to identify as non-binary and the painful experience of helping their partner, Twilight star Bethany Meyers (who also prefers non-binary pronouns) through an abortion.

In Space Between: Explorations of Love, Sex, and Fluidity, Tortorella writes that after a year without speaking to each other (the pair had an on-and-off polyamorous relationship for a decade before marrying last year), Meyers called and said, “Baby, I’m pregnant.”

“Everything that happened next is sort of a blur,” writes Tortorella, who booked a flight to see Meyers immediately after hearing the news. “The baby wasn’t mine, obviously, but it didn’t matter. After deep consideration, Bethany knew they couldn’t keep the baby. I went to the doctor’s office with them the day I landed.”

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3/9/19. today marks one year married to this super being. someone asked me if it feels different, and i had to think about it. the short answer is no, at our core it's always been the same. the long answer is yes, absolutely it feels different. we feel different every single day. more of everything. marrying you was the best decision i've ever made, and i'd do it 1,000x over if it meant i would get to learn more from you. being married is work, and it's the best job in the world. you teach me to be resilient and at ease simultaneously. you inspire me to work harder, love harder, question harder, sleep harder, wake harder, and be softer all at the the same time. you show me who i am. who we are. and what we can do with it. to vow to solemnly swear solemnly promise to dedicate to you, my deity the feminine to my masculine the masculine to my feminine and everything, the space between. happy anniversary baby, i love you. @bethanycmeyers ---------------------------@victoriamatthews_ 📸 @andrewmorrisonstudio @them #allofitisyou #spacebetween -------------LINK IN BIO FOR MORE ABOUT OUR WEDDING 399

“I had dealt with a partner’s abortion firsthand a number of years before and was all too familiar with the process. It’s a painful one, emotionally, physically, and spiritually," Tortorella continues, before revealing that Meyers decided to have “an at-home medical abortion."

The difficult situation helped to bring the couple back together and made them realise their love was forever. “It had been years since we were this intimate,” Tortorella wrote. “It solidified our forever quality - that no matter what had happened in our separate individual lives, no matter what had transpired in the time lost, no matter how much we did or didn’t talk, we showed up. We honoured. We celebrated. We were family, forever.”

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Isabelle Truman is a freelance writer based out of London, UK. She specialises in fashion, lifestyle and travel and knows a thing or two (read: everything) about both Meghan Markle and 'Sex and the City'.

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