Former Bachelor Colton Unrwood out as gay |

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• COLTON UNRWOOD'S COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH AND TEAMMAT REACT TO HIM COMG OUT AS GAY: 'COULDN'T BE HAPPIER'
• COLTON UNRWOOD'S FORMER LLEGE FOOTBALL ACH, TEAMMAT AFTER HE ME OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY: 'TOOK AMAZG URAGE'
• COLTON UNRWOOD REGRETS NOT COMG OUT AFTER SEEG MICHAEL SAM BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER
• CARL NASSIB SUPPORTED BY NFL STARS & COLTON UNRWOOD AFTER G OUT AS GAY – BUT IS ALSO TARGETED BY SICK TROLLS
• FORMER BACHELOR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
• COLTON UNRWOOD REGRETS NOT COMG OUT AFTER SEEG MICHAEL SAM BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER
• COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY

COLTON UNRWOOD'S COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH AND TEAMMAT REACT TO HIM COMG OUT AS GAY: 'COULDN'T BE HAPPIER'

Colton Unrwood is ntug to receive support after he me out as gay on Wednday.

I thk I speak for all of his former teammat sayg that we support him g [out as gay].

Unrwood me out as gay durg a s-down terview wh Rob Roberts that aired on Good Morng Ameri Wednday. Durg the personal nversatn, tled "Colton Unrwood: In His Own Words, " he discsed how football had played a part him reprsg his sexualy, sayg that the word "gay was always affiliated wh a nnotatn of negativy. I've hated myself for a long time, and I'm gay.

COLTON UNRWOOD'S FORMER LLEGE FOOTBALL ACH, TEAMMAT AFTER HE ME OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY: 'TOOK AMAZG URAGE'

In his new Netflix realy seri, the former football player, who me out as gay earlier this year, is followed by meras as he opens up about his sexualy to iends and fay, and nonts the fallout om his public breakup wh Cassie Randolph. When He 'Knew' He Was Gay.

COLTON UNRWOOD REGRETS NOT COMG OUT AFTER SEEG MICHAEL SAM BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER

Former Bachelor Colton Unrwood said that he's "always known he was different, " tellg both his mother and father while g out that he knew he was gay sce he was 6 or 7 years old, acrdg to his new Netflix documentary, Comg Out Colton. Unrwood, who ultimately gave Cassie Randolph his fal rose, said he "didn't want to be gay" and believed would jt take the right woman to change him — and that Randolph would be the one to do . Unrwood said that followg the cint, his classmat began circulatg mors that he was gay — and that was the first time that he was almost outed, a moment he said led to him seekg ntrol of his life.

" He explaed that "locker room talk" was one of the reasons he never felt fortable acceptg himself high school, when he heard ach and teammat e offensive language to scribe gay men. Unrwood mentned Michael Sam — the first openly gay player to be drafted to the NFL 2014, who retired 2015 om the sport for mental health reasons — and said that Sam's experience wh beg out the NFL left him aaid of meetg the same fate.

CARL NASSIB SUPPORTED BY NFL STARS & COLTON UNRWOOD AFTER G OUT AS GAY – BUT IS ALSO TARGETED BY SICK TROLLS

That weight lifted off Unrwood's shoulrs was the revelatn that he's gay – a tth Unrwood told the entire world on Wednday an emotnal terview on ABC's "Good Morng Ameri. " GAY 'BACHELOR' SEASON WITH UNDERWOOD? I thk I speak for all of his former teammat sayg that we support him g (out as gay).

" On GMA on Wednday, Unrwood scribed football beg his ma inty and that locker room homophobic language throughout his high school and llege reer played a part him stayg closeted. 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. 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.

FORMER BACHELOR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

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.

COLTON UNRWOOD REGRETS NOT COMG OUT AFTER SEEG MICHAEL SAM BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY NFL PLAYER

When his father nonted him after disverg that he viewed gay porn on the puter as an eighth grar, he nied beg 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.

COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM 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. When Michael Sam me out as gay 2014, beg the first-ever openly gay football player to be drafted by an NFL team, Colton Unrwood fally saw an opportuny to be his te future star of “The Bachelor” had been hidg his sexualy — om his fay, his iends and himself — for his entire life. But growg up a relig and nservative small town, pecially as a star football player, he was tght that beg gay was om VarietyColton Unrwood Wants to Help Refe Masculy After Hidg Behd 'The Bachelor'Colton Unrwood, the First Gay 'Bachelor, ' Cononts His Controversial Comg Out'The Bachelor' Producers, Chris Harrison Celebrate Colton Unrwood Comg OutRelated: Former ‘Bachelor’ star reveals he’s gay“I had the opportuny 2014 when I entered the draft.

Unrwood — who spoke to Variety a wi-rangg terview for this week’s ver story — me out as gay last month durg an terview on “Good Morng Ameri” wh Rob Roberts. He is the first openly gay man to e om “The Bachelor” anchise. Unrwood rells that when Sam beme the first openly gay player drafted by the NFL 2014, no one the locker room supported the ia.