How Cassie Randolph 'Found Out' About Colton Unrwood Comg Out as Gay

Contents:

• ‘I DIDN’T WANT TO BE GAY,’ COLTON UNRWOOD SAYS NEW ‘COMG OUT COLTON’ TRAILER
• 'BACHELOR' ALUM CASSIE RANDOLPH ON HOW SHE 'FOUND OUT' ABOUT EX COLTON UNRWOOD COMG OUT AS GAY
• FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD: ‘I’M GAY’
• FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
• 'BACHELOR' ALUM COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY: 'I'M THE HAPPIT AND HEALTHIT I'VE EVER BEEN'
• COLTON UNRWOOD, FIRST ‘BACHELOR’ STAR TO E OUT AS GAY, SAYS HE WAS BLACKMAILED
• COLTON UNRWOOD, THE FIRST GAY ‘BACHELOR,’ CONONTS HIS CONTROVERSIAL COMG OUT
• COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
• GAY ‘BACHELOR’ COLTON UNRWOOD SAYS RELATNSHIP WH GOD IS ‘BT ’S EVER BEEN’
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI

‘I DIDN’T WANT TO BE GAY,’ COLTON UNRWOOD SAYS NEW ‘COMG OUT COLTON’ TRAILER

”“When I was ‘The Bachelor, ’ everyone was like, ‘Oh, he’s a virg Bachelor, well, he has to be gay, ’” Unrwood told The Tim a March 2020 terview to promote the book. “My dad didn’t tch me lookg at gay porn, per se, but jt me rearchg and Googlg: ‘How do I know if I’m gay? Basilly what I’m tryg to tell you is, I’m gay.

“I didn’t want to be gay, ” Unrwood says Monday’s trailer, “and the ma voic my head were jt tellg me, ‘You’ll get through this, you’ll get through this. Former Bachelor Colton Unrwood is openg up much more about his ntroversial g out — and the upg Netflix realy show about , which is movg ahead spe lls for s 29-year-old realy star, who me out as gay on April 14, now adms that had sexual experienc wh men prr to jog The Bachelor anchise 2018 and then pickg Cassie Randolph 2019. He also said that prr to g out, someone attempted to blackmail him after he vised a gay spa.

'BACHELOR' ALUM CASSIE RANDOLPH ON HOW SHE 'FOUND OUT' ABOUT EX COLTON UNRWOOD COMG OUT AS GAY

Unrwood — who said he ed Grr, a well-known gay datg and hookup app, unr an alias 2016 or 2017 — clarified, “When I say ‘hookups, ’ not sex. ’” the former football player said of his sexual enunters wh men, prevly notg that growg up Catholic the Midwt ma him believe beg gay was a s.

While 's unclear the exact timele, pre- or post-Randolph spl, he secretly vised a gay spa Los Angel last year “jt to look. ”Unrwood, who said he knew he was different at age 6 and gay durg his hman year high school, also spoke about how his nservative upbrgg sred him to his closeted life. He said he had no gay iends growg up Illois, and certaly no out on on his football team.

He relled there beg jt out gay person his town was "the butt of every joke. When his father nonted him after disverg that he viewed gay porn on the puter as an eighth grar, he nied beg gay.

FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD: ‘I’M GAY’

Later, when 2005's Brokeback Mounta me out, he sneakily ed a iend's Blockbter rd to rent the film so his fay wouldn't acce him of beg gay. “Growg up sports, I was tght that gay is wrong and gay is bad and football players are not gay, ” Unrwood said.

FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

“By the time I realized that I was gay, I didn’t want to be gay. It was easy for me to hi pla sight behd a football mask and huntg and fishg and the thgs that this world tells is ‘mascule’ and ‘manly, '" he said, addg, "I would have done anythg to see a gay football player. Colton Unrwood publicly g out as gay me as a surprise to his ex-girliend Cassie Randolph.

'BACHELOR' ALUM COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY: 'I'M THE HAPPIT AND HEALTHIT I'VE EVER BEEN'

But Randolph eventually revealed how she first disvered the news that Unrwood, 29, is gay after he me out April 2021. RELATED VIDEO: Cassie Randolph Didn't Know Ex Colton Unrwood Was Gay, Says Source: 'She's Still Procsg'. Former 'Bachelor' star says he is gay.

Colton Unrwood told Rob Roberts on “Good Morng Ameri” that he is gay an terview that aired Wednday morng.

I’m gay. The former Bachelor nttant me out as gay April 2021 and has been attached to Brown sce last fall.

COLTON UNRWOOD, FIRST ‘BACHELOR’ STAR TO E OUT AS GAY, SAYS HE WAS BLACKMAILED

Unrwood then me out as gay April 2021 an terview wh Rob Roberts on Good Morng Ameri, and went on to star on Netflix docu-seri Comg Out Colton, tracg Unrwood's own g out journey and teractns wh other notable gay public figur. He was the first lead of The Bachelor anchise to e out as gay.

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Close to one month after publicly g out as a gay man, the Bachelor Natn member is sharg new tails about his experience the LGBTQ+ muny.

COLTON UNRWOOD, THE FIRST GAY ‘BACHELOR,’ CONONTS HIS CONTROVERSIAL COMG OUT

"ABCAcrdg to Variety, Colton shared a story of visg a Los Angel spa 2020 that was known for terg to gay clientele. In addn to his terview on Good Morng Ameri, the 29-year-old thor is the middle of filmg a Netflix realy show about his life as a now-openly gay man. "I had never seen a football player that had ma to the NFL that had been gay, growg up Catholic.

COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY

I've had hundreds of gay Christian men and women who are nfed their walk wh J say, ‘I felt closer to God when I me out. He add, "My dad is proud to say that he is a nservative Republin, and he is also proud to say, I have a gay son. In an April 2021 Good Morng Ameri terview wh Rob Roberts, Colton Unrwood — known as the "virg Bachelor" durg his time on the ABC realy TV anchise, which 30 women peted for his affectns — revealed that he is gay.

Homophobic jok and slurs were enabled by his ach the locker room, he Comg Out Colton, that nservative upbrgg adds to the element of surprise: If an episo ends wh Unrwood havg jt told a loved one about his sexualy, the viewer has to watch the next episo to fd out how they react, knowg that might not be a favourable rponse. 'A certa amount of privilege'Much of Unrwood's stggle wh his sexualy stems om his background as a profsnal athlete and the fear of beg outed as gay among unwelg teammat and ach.

GAY ‘BACHELOR’ COLTON UNRWOOD SAYS RELATNSHIP WH GOD IS ‘BT ’S EVER BEEN’

Kenworthy, who is also openly gay, acted as a mentor durg the show. ""I have had sex and J still lov me": navigatg sex and moraly on The BacheloretteThe seri rporat the experienc of other profsnal athlet who are openly gay.

"The way that he's kd of disverg gay culture feels like [he is a] straight spectator of queer culture, " Woods said. Colton Unrwood is ready to live his former "Bachelor" star me out as gay an exclive terview wh Rob Roberts on "Good Morng Ameri" on Wednday.

"And I'm gay. "When Roberts, who is also openly gay, said she uld "see the joy" and "see the relief" Unrwood, he said he was "emotnal , like such a good, happy, posive way, " and is "the happit and healthit" he's ever been. Unrwood said he went through a "dark and bad" time before feelg like he uld reveal this about himself and his "wake up ll" was feelg like he "would've rather died" than say he's gay.

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It took until high school for him to realize he "was more attracted to the boys and the men" than he was the oppose grown up the Catholic church, he remembered he "learned the Bible that gay is a s" Catholic gra school. And durg his time sports, he remembered people g the word "gay" as a term that held "a nnotatn of negativy.

Unrwood said he has grown "closer to God" this revelatn and said he knows some people will qutn how that's even possible for a gay man to say. "I ed to wake up the morng and pray for him to take the gay away. I am proud to be gay.

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Colton Unrwood ntu to face ntroversy for his six-episo doceri Comg Out Colton, which premiered on Netflix on December former Bachelor star has garnered all sorts of mixed reactns the media recent months, and 's not difficult to unrstand April, Unrwood was granted the opportuny to publicly e out as gay on Good Morng Ameri an emotnal terview wh Rob Roberts.

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It looks as though Netflix is parg Unrwood's g out wh pivotal queer ins like Harvey Milk, Ameri's first out, gay elected official; Edh Wdsor, the late activist whose Supreme Court se led to natnal marriage equaly; and Marsha P. After g out as gay, Colton Unrwood is sharg his journey a new Netflix documentary.