Lesbian hearts broken by chasing straight women received a shot of adrenaline this week when a writer for ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK revealed she left her husband – for one the show’s stars – after realizing she was gay.

While writing for the Netflix hit, Lauren Morelli says realized that she was gay — even though at the time, she was married to a man. When production began on “OITNB,” Morelli had been wed for five months.

“I realized I was gay in fall 2012, one of my first days on the set,” Morelli wrote. “It wasn’t so much one thing, but the sum of many small details: how uncomfortable I felt around groups of lesbians or how I considered myself … a ‘not very sexual person.’ When considered alone, these seemed like little quirks that made me me.”

On the set of “OITNB,” where she helped shape the story of main character Piper (Taylor Schilling) and her relationships, “these small moments came into sharp relief,” Morelli continued. “I was finally forced to consider a question that had never, ever occurred to me before … am I gay?”

While watching a love scene that she’d written between Piper and Alex (Laura Prepon) filmed, Morelli said she found her emotions paralleling the show. “I’d found a mouthpiece for my own desires,” she wrote in her essay, “and a glimmer of what my future could look like.”

Morelli and her husband of two years, have jointly filed for divorce.

And if that isn’t enough encouragement, Morelli is now dating the gorgeous Samira Wiley, the actress who plays Poussey.