WWE star Darren Young out as gay: ‘I’m very happy’

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WWE wrtler Darren Young revealed to an unspectg TMZ meraman - and subsequently the rt of the world - that he is a gay man. While leavg LAX airport on Thursday, the pro-athlete was hound by an enthiastic shutterbug, and quizzed on his thoughts about the wrtlg dtry. * darren g he is a gay man *

Darren Young Reveals His Mother Is Gay, How Long He Knew He Was Gay Darren Young recently appeared as a gut on Sean Waltman's X-Pac's 12360 Podst for an -pth terview. Below are some of the highlights. On knowg he was gay his whole life: "I always knew I jt surprised my feelgs. Jt fear of judgment you know fear of losg iends so… For thirty years I'm thirty-three now for thirty years I jt lived my life not beg myself so jt image you know. Thk of your most down moment you're life and tim by ten that's how I felt. Jt image not beg able to be like other normal upl. That's what I wanted to be ultimately as I grew up. I wanted to be like normal upl. I want to be able to hold hands public and be affectnate when the time is right a classy way. But that was my ma goal that was my ma goal and I acplished by g out to TMZ." On his mom beg gay as well: "No no never… brought up to thkg that gay was bad. A lot of people don't know but my Mom is actually gay. This is the first time I'm sayg this to you our any podst. This is somethg I was gog to save for my YouTube, but yeah, my Mom's actually gay. And she's been gay for a long time my parents live together you know fancially they're bt iends and fancially jt good for them to stay together you know they're iends… But I knew my Mom was gay and I was always that type of guy that kd of looked down upon like an idt. I'd look down upon or I'd be around my iends and they'd say, 'oh that's gay.' I'd be like, 'oh yeah yeah.' I'd jump on board like an idt man. Now never aga." On Mark Henry llg him gay before he me out publicly: "When I first me up on the roster I had I had hair like Enzo (Amore) kd of was spiky and stuff like that. So, Mark Henry, you know how he is. He's jt stg there the locker and he's like, and this is a uple months on the road and he's like,"Boy" and he's long wd. "Boy why you got your hair like that?" Aga I n say this story bee he's gog to be puttg this his book so I told him, "Hey when I have an opportuny to tell this story I'm gog to tell bee I don't want to at first offend him but he's okay wh so aga he's stg there, "Boy why you got your hair like that?" I said, "Mark (bg my nails) Mark I'm jt tryg to be different. I'm jt tryg to stand out." "Well you know mak you look gay." And this was before I me out so I'm jt stutterg like I am now. Mark, I'm jt tryg to be different man you know. "Fast-forward to when I like me out. The morng I me out he lled me, this was LA at the hotel, he lled me and said, "Come down to the green room." This was durg SummerSlam… I went down to the green room and he gave me the biggt hug and he was like, "Man how e you didn't tell me?" I was like, "Mark I didn't tell nobody. You know how hard is for me." And Mark said you know his book when he wr a book… one of the chapters is gog to be about me and the ptn is gog to be, Insert foot mouth." Check out the plete Darren Young terview at iTun. * darren g he is a gay man *

Young ught the meraman off guard by takg the opportuny to reveal that he is gay. * darren g he is a gay man *

* darren g he is a gay man *