Veteran broadcaster Brooke Baldwin revealed intimate particulars of her intercourse life—together with why she’s already turned down a number of potential companions this summer season—in a extremely private Substack essay.
On Sunday, the 47-year-old former NCS Newsroom anchor revealed a candid put up titled “CASUAL SEX? Let’s Discuss” on her Substack, Unraveling, with Brooke Baldwin.
“Over the last month or so, I’ve had the opportunity to sleep with four different men,” Baldwin wrote. “This is not a humblebrag. Nor have I suddenly become Samantha Jones.”
She teased that her would-be companions included a person who “used to run a country,” one other who flew in particularly to take her to dinner, and one she described merely as “hot.”
The former NCS anchor posted a candid confession about her intercourse life. / Chance Yeh / FilmMagic
But Baldwin turned down “Every. Single. One,” she wrote.
The resolution stunned even Baldwin, who beforehand posted that intercourse is “like oxygen” to her and admitted that informal encounters stay “very much on the table.”
“It could be empowering. It would almost certainly be pleasurable,” she wrote. “And I’m a grown-a– woman with choices.”
Baldwin mentioned she turned down affords from 4 males. / Mike Coppola / Getty Images for Turner
However, the journalist realized that bodily attraction was not sufficient.
“If you can’t tickle my brain, you just can’t tickle… anything else,” she wrote, figuring out herself as sapiosexual, somebody who’s primarily drawn to intelligence.
Baldwin mentioned half of her reluctance stems from a still-raw heartbreak, revealing that as lately as six months in the past, she believed she would get married this yr.
A relationship replace on Substack knowledgeable readers that she was relationship filmmaker Peter Landesman, 61, although she didn’t establish him within the latest essay or make clear whether or not they had damaged up.
Baldwin posted about her glad relationship with Peter Landesman in a 2025 Substack life replace. / Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images
The former anchor was beforehand married to British producer James Fletcher. She filed for divorce in 2023 after almost 5 years of marriage.
But Baldwin mentioned her resolution was additionally about defending the vitality she wants for her skilled and private targets.
“In this particular season of my life, I care too much about what I’m building to let my energy scatter in a dozen directions,” she wrote. “This isn’t about morality. It’s not about shame. It’s not even really about sex.”
After almost 5 years of marriage, Baldwin divorced James Fletcher in 2023. / Jim Spellman / WireImage
She described that scattered feeling as being “leaky,” a time period she recalled studying and repeating throughout a birthday dinner with 9 feminine pals in New York City.
“Right now, I want every ounce of my energy available for what’s trying to be born through me,” she wrote. “I don’t want to leak my magic away.”
Baldwin mentioned that, for the primary time, rejecting intercourse didn’t depart her feeling disadvantaged.
“I feel powerful. Protective of my self. Whole,” she wrote.
She argued that freedom doesn’t all the time imply saying sure just because a chance is on the market. Instead, Baldwin mentioned, it may possibly imply recognizing “when your deepest yes actually sounds like no.”
“This is what discipline really is,” she wrote. “It isn’t punishment. It’s protection.”
The put up is the newest deeply private essay Baldwin has revealed to Substack since leaving NCS in 2021 after 13 years at the community.
The put up is the newest in Baldwin’s collection of candid confessions posted to her Substack. / Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images
In a May Substack post, Baldwin alleged that she was sexually assaulted at 21 after two older males slipped a mind-altering drug into her drink throughout a spring break journey to Los Angeles.
Baldwin mentioned her recollections of the night time survived solely in “flashes” and that she later awakened on a rest room ground at the Chateau Marmont beside a person she didn’t know.
She has additionally claimed that her NCS exit was not completely voluntary, regardless of saying her departure on her personal present.
Now, she mentioned she is concentrated on changing into entire sufficient to make her personal decisions.
“For me, right now, that choice is easy,” Baldwin wrote. “There is something moving through me that feels far bigger than me.”