Olympian Elena Delle Donne Comes Out as Gay & Announces She’s Engaged!

Olympian and WNBA star Elena Delle Donne just revealed that she’s gay and engaged to her longtime girlfriend Amanda Clifton.

In an interview with Vogue, the 26-year-old basketball player explained that she and Amanda got engaged on June 2nd, but didn’t intend for the article to be a coming out story.

“It was just one of those articles where they came into my home, spent a couple days with me, and Amanda is a huge part of my life. So to leave her out wouldn’t have made any sense,” Elena later told ESPN.

She added, “It’s not a coming-out article or anything. I’ve been with her for a very long time now, and people who are close to me know that, and that’s that.”