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Colton Haynes opens up to Out Magazine
On his dad comitting suicide:
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“I’m the last person in the world who would say, ‘Oh, my dad—pity me,’” says Haynes, whose father, seven times married, split from Dana and was never close with him. “But I was told that my dad killed himself because he found out I was gay. So, of course, I lost it and was like, ‘How could you say something like that?’ And no one will ever really know the truth. But my brother and my mom went to pick up my dad’s stuff, and the only picture on his fridge was my eighth-grade graduation picture. So I was just like, ****.”
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On taking a while to come out:
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Haynes describes therapy as “the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me.” He’s battled some degree of anxiety since he was in fifth grade, but it's spiked dramatically in recent years, in large part because of the way he shielded his sexual orientation. “I feel really bad that I had to lie for so long,” says Haynes, who’s dressed in a tank top and gym shorts, and keeps pointing out the stress-induced sweat that’s dripping from his armpits. “But I was told that was the only way I was going to be successful. When you’re young in this industry, people take advantage of you, and they literally tell you that your dreams are going to come true. If you believe that, you’ll do anything. And you do believe it, especially if you’re from Kansas.”
By the time he came out publicly in a May interview with Entertainment Weekly, he’d suffered through a bitter breakup with a man after a six-year relationship, regular bouts of panic-induced vomiting on set, an unplanned departure from Arrow (with the aid of showrunner Greg Berlanti), a one-month stint in mental-health rehab, and a stomach ulcer he is still getting under control.
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Confirming that his team tried to have the gay XY photoshoot removed:
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Around the time he landed his breakthrough role on Teen Wolf in 2011, Haynes was taking the heat for efforts by his team to wipe the XY shots from the Internet.
“I looked like I was ****ing gay-bashing,” he says. “Like I hated myself or I hated the gays, which was never the intention at all. I was just young and trying to make it in this town and doing what these people were telling me to do.”
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Read more at: http://www.out.com/popnography/2016/...-colton-haynes
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What a strong guy he is to pull through all that though!
Poor man.
