Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Jonathan Groff is relieved no one “ripped the truth” about his sexuality “out of” him.
The ‘Glee’ actor came out as gay in 2009 and he feels “so grateful” that the people around him allowed him to do so in his own time, rather than “pushing” him to admit his then-partner was more than just a roommate.
Asked to name the weight he had to shoulder before he was read, he told NPR’s ‘Wild Card with Rachel Martin’:
“The obvious one that’s coming to my head is when I came out of the closet. I guess this is the most essential one. The wrestling with that and the acceptance of that is now…it helps me with every other version of that in my life. So it’s like that thing of compartmentalising an innate truth…
“I am so grateful that someone didn’t rip that truth out of me, that I was surrounded by such loving people.
“Even when I moved to New York and I was in ‘Spring Awakening’ with a cast of my peers – and everyone knew probably that Cody, my boyfriend, was not my roommate, which is what I said he was — no one ever really pushed me to declare who I was. They just held me with love.”
The ‘Frozen’ actor admitted making the move to New York helped him fully become his true self but he wouldn’t change his journey.
He said: “Ultimately, through sort of moving to New York and then experiencing other people that were who they were and watching them thrive and seeing their examples helped me to start to move that from a compartmentalised part of myself out of my mouth to really bring the truth out of my throat.
“And then falling in love with Gavin Creel — RIP, who just passed last year — and then feeling that feeling, and going, ‘Oh, wow! This is way better than anything.’
“And so that was the final kick in the a** that I needed to fully express it and talk about it and release that weight. In retrospect, looking back, I’m so grateful that it was all of those steps to get it there.”
