Colton Unrwood, former 'Bachelor' star, says he's gay | CNN

Contents:

• FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
• FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD: ‘I’M GAY’
• GAY ‘BACHELOR’ COLTON UNRWOOD SAYS RELATNSHIP WH GOD IS ‘BT ’S EVER BEEN’
• FORMER BACHELOR COLTON UNRWOOD COM OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M THE HAPPIT AND HEALTHIT I’VE EVER BEEN’
• FORMER ‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD: ‘I’M GAY’

FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

AFTER publicly g out as gay, Colton Unrwood unveiled his new boyiend, Jordan C Brown, whom he lled his 'love' a sentimental post on his Instagram Story amid the Comg Out Colton premiere. He me out as gay April.

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

I'm gay.

Comg Out Colton is a six-part seri which Colton learns to embrace his homosexualy. The show follows as he opens up about beg gay, shar the news wh fay members, and also tails allegatns ma by ex-girliend Cassie Randolph.

5Colton went pth about his g out and beg gay his new show, Comg Out Colton.

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

"I have been gay my entire life, sce I was a child. Though some of that live big ci n feel like half of the world is gay, 's a stark difference om many livg small towns. "I was takg my mom somewhere one day and she jt asked 'are you gay?

"I was so sred of what actually meant to ll yourself gay so even the first man I dated, I still thought that afterwards I was gog to eventually meet a girl and get married bee that's what men did, " he said. "But I was steadfast that like 'I'm gay and I probably shouldn't have been talg to someone that was 20 but I'm not gog to therapy, '" he said. Apparently Bex Banks was the last to fd out he was gay.

Though he was engaged gay sex, he didn't intify as gay. At age 21, his mom had enouugh and mand an explatn for the gay porn she was fdg on the puter and phone.

FORMER BACHELOR COLTON UNRWOOD COM OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M THE HAPPIT AND HEALTHIT I’VE EVER BEEN’

"Once I had the nversatn wh my mom, I had no problem sayg I was gay, " he said. "I was actually rehab when I was 16 years old and I thk a part of why I end up gog to rehab was the difficulty I had wh acceptg myself as a gay person, " Sharok said.

For him, beg gay was a ath sentence beg that he grew up the 1990s durg the HIV/AIDS epimic and a fay member died of the disease. "At that pot was kd of like an emotnal avalanche and I jt let all out and told her that I was gay. " Fran said that while they have grown to accept him, his fay still believ he shouldn't act on his homosexualy.

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

" At the time, Zevran was a gogo dancer performg gay clubs. 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. 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.