CMT host Cody Alan publicly me out as gay a heartfelt Instagram post on Thursday, January 12 — read what he wrote
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- CMT STAR CODY ALAN COM OUT AS GAY: 'YOU CAN FD THE KD OF LOVE, PEACE AND HAPPS THIS LIFE YOU DERVE'
- CMT HOST CODY ALAN: WHY I CAME OUT AS GAY
- 'I WAS SO ASHAMED OF WHO I WAS': GAY CMT HOST CODY ALAN TAILS STGGLE TO HI HIS SEXUALY FOR YEARS WHILE LIVG AS A MARRIED MORMON DAD OF TWO, RELLG HOW HE 'PRAYED TO MAKE HIMSELF STRAIGHT'
- CMT HOST CODY ALAN COM OUT AS GAY EMOTNAL POST
- CODY ALAN WIKI: AGE, MARRIED, ENGAGED, BOYIEND, GAY
- CODY ALAN, AGE 32 & BOYIEND ENGAGED TO GET MARRIED | GAY TRANSN
- CMT HOST CODY ALAN COM OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M HAPPIER AND HEALTHIER THAN I’VE EVER BEEN’
CMT STAR CODY ALAN COM OUT AS GAY: 'YOU CAN FD THE KD OF LOVE, PEACE AND HAPPS THIS LIFE YOU DERVE'
CMT host Cody Alan discs g out as gay the untry mic muny. * cody alan gay *
CMT Star Cody Alan Com Out as Gay: 'You Can Fd the Kd of Love, Peace and Happs This Life You Derve'. But for years, the seemgly happy-go-lucky CMT and iHeartRad host suffered an inty crisis, holdg onto a secret he’s fally ready to share — that he’s gay. You see, I’m gay.
“To their generatn, beg gay is like your eye lor — ’s jt there — so they unrstood better than I thought.
CMT HOST CODY ALAN: WHY I CAME OUT AS GAY
Cody, 48, knew he was gay om a young age, but grew up Christian and nverted to Mormonism as a teen. He prayed to be straight and thought that if me out, God would hate him. * cody alan gay *
“I remember thkg how proud I was of both of them — how much urage that took for each of them to say they were gay and to share their liv wh the world, ” Alan says. By sharg his story, Cody is helpg listeners and fans get to know someone who shar their passn for untry mic and southern valu, and who also happens to be gay.
CMT Host Cody Alan: Why I Came Out as Gay. Cody Alan, host of CMT’s Hot 20 Countdown and producer of iHeartRad’s CMT After Midne and CMT Rad Live, publicly me out as gay today wh a heartfelt Instagram post directed at fans and followers. For my teenage kids, to them, beg gay is like your eye lor [lghs].
But they see a guy like me on TV who is untry and gay, and they regnize that there’s a place for you here, and that untry mic is a warm, welg space. The CMT host me out as gay last week on social media and an exclive terview wh PEOPLE, and he’s sce received an outpourg of love om fans and his untry mic peers. ” Beg backed by them — as well as his partner, occupatnal therapist Michael Smh, and the CMT staff, which he says “has been amazg” sce he told them he was gay — led him to fally makg his announcement last Thursday.
'I WAS SO ASHAMED OF WHO I WAS': GAY CMT HOST CODY ALAN TAILS STGGLE TO HI HIS SEXUALY FOR YEARS WHILE LIVG AS A MARRIED MORMON DAD OF TWO, RELLG HOW HE 'PRAYED TO MAKE HIMSELF STRAIGHT'
CMT host Cody Alan me out as gay an emotnally revealg post to social media on Jan. 12. * cody alan gay *
CMT host Cody Alan has opened up about how he spent years prayg to be straight while hidg his homosexualy — and how he feared the God would hate him if he me out as, 48, knew he was gay om a young age, but grew up Christian and nverted to Mormonism as a teen — so he kept his orientatn a secret, 'fakg' his straightns and even marryg a Mormon went on to have two children, now adults, who were raised Mormon as well.
CMT HOST CODY ALAN COM OUT AS GAY EMOTNAL POST
' Candid: CMT host Cody Alan has opened up about how he spent years prayg to be straight while hidg his homosexualy Flashback: Cody, 48, knew he was gay om a young age, but grew up Christian and nverted to Mormonism as a teen (pictured on a missn)Cody grew up Columbia, South Carola, and joed the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats as a Church has historilly taken a hardle stance agast homosexualy, and 2015 went so far as to label same-sex upl as apostat, or those who have abandoned the relign. 'So Cody no doubt stggled wh beg tght that homosexualy was wrong, and mted for some time to hidg that he was gay.
Tough: The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats has historilly taken a hardle stance agast homosexualy 'I stggled wh my sexualy startg at a very young age, ' he said (pictured at age 15) After marryg a fellow Mormon bee was what he was 'supposed to do, ' he had two kids - dghter Makayla, now 23 (left), and son Landon, now 19 (right) - whom he raised Mormon'When you go through most of your adult life livg a "straight" life, you learn to be that way and to sort of fake , ' he said.
But 2009, Cody me out to Terra as gay, and realized wasn't 'fair' to her to keep the relatnship gog, so the two also me out to his kids, and relled that he was 'sred' — but his kids showed 'total acceptance' and unrstandg.
CODY ALAN WIKI: AGE, MARRIED, ENGAGED, BOYIEND, GAY
The CMT host shar his story his new book Hear's the Thg (out now), which he discs fah, fay and how his life changed after he revealed he was gay a 2017 PEOPLE terview.
CODY ALAN, AGE 32 & BOYIEND ENGAGED TO GET MARRIED | GAY TRANSN
Alan knew he was gay om a young age. Wh Terra's support, Alan slowly began g out to close iends, fay and lleagu, cludg Keh Urban, who was the first artist he told he was gay. The rad and TV personaly me out as gay an emotnally revealg post.
You see, I’m gay, " Alan wr via Instagram, addg, "This is not a choice I ma, but somethg I've known about myself my whole life.
CMT HOST CODY ALAN COM OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M HAPPIER AND HEALTHIER THAN I’VE EVER BEEN’
Country Stars Who've Come Out as Gay“Though my TV or my rad persona was always that of a happy guy, there was this unrlyg ache si of me for years, so I cid eher I was gonna do somethg about , or I was gonna live wh this layer of misery unrneath that happy face on the TV, ” Alan tells South Carola native says he knew he was gay om a very young age, but he stggled agast out of shame. “To their generatn, beg gay is like your eye lor -- ’s jt there — so they unrstood better than I thought.