Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis in Top Gun Photo by: Everett Collection
Top Gun's Kelly McGillis 'Done with the Man Thing'
Kelly McGillis, best known as Tom Cruise's girlfriend in 1986's Top Gun, has revealed to the Internet show Girl Rock! that she is single but no longer searching for a male companion.

Asked if she's looking to date a man or woman, the actress, 51, replied, "Definitely a woman."

The twice-divorced mother of two daughters – her movies also include 1985's Witness, with Harrison Ford, and 1988's The Accused, with Jodie Foster – said she's "done with the man thing. I did that. I need to move on in life. It's a part of being true to yourself. That's been a challenge for me."

The difficulty of coming out as a lesbian led to "an ongoing process from the time I was probably 12. I had a lot of things happen that convinced me that God was punishing me because I was gay," said McGillis, who in 1982 was assaulted by an escaped rapist who had gotten into her apartment.

Kelly McGillis Photo by: Amy Graves / WireImage
Top Gun's Kelly McGillis 'Done with the Man Thing'| Kelly McGillis
Now gray-haired and in rehearsals for The Little Foxes on stage in Pasadena, Calif., McGillis also told the show that she would like to jump back onto the big screen – except for one thing.

"Whenever I get an offer, they ask me to dye my hair," she says. "And I just won't."

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