Actor Jameela Jamil has come out as queer amid backlash over the announcement that she would be the master of ceremonies on an upcoming television show about voguing and ballroom competitions.

Twitter is brutal, wrote the Good Place star at the beginning of an impassioned note she shared on social media on Wednesday.

Earlier this week, it was revealed that Jamil would be the MC for the new HBO Max series Legendary and the response was universal backlash, as per Out magazine, who noted that she is a woman who many do not know to be queer or trans, and who seemingly has no connection to ballroom.

In response, Jamils note explained that she put a rainbow on her Twitter profile a few years ago to note that she identifies as queer. She wrote that when people asked what it signified, she would tell them, but that up until now she kept it low because she was scared of the pain of being accused of performative bandwagon jumping.