Twitter told Joe McElderry he’s gay
You know how when you came out, a few of your friends said, “Yeah, I always suspected.” or, “I totally knew”?
Joe McElderry’s story beats that. Someone hacked his Twitter account and posted messages indicating he was gay and had been “living a lie.” The 19 year-old was stunned, but then found himself thinking that it might just be true. A couple weeks later, and he’s come out.
“It was always the case at school, really. I’d had girlfriends. I kissed loads of girls and I kissed one boy last year. I just thought, ‘Is this just not what everybody does – experimenting, at this age’? I never thought anything of it.
“It’s not fair on the boy I kissed last year if I talk about him. It was just before X Factor and it was nothing serious. It was a peck of a kiss while I was at college. I just thought, ‘What happened there? That was pretty nice’.
“It didn’t trigger anything in me at all. I didn’t feel anything. I just thought, ‘That was strange’.
“When I was doing X Factor I genuinely thought I wasn’t gay, and then I kind of just got to the point where, actually, maybe I am.
“Now I can get on with the rest of my life and move on and be comfortable.
“There’s always been speculation about me so I’m kind of used to it.
“I thought I wasn’t gay, so I thought it was just part of the job with all the speculation.
“So I just let it go over my head and got on with it.
“It eventually sunk into my mind. Genuinely, I just assumed I wasn’t gay. I was so young I never thought any more about it.”
from The Sun
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