Being gay is a blessing, says Anderson Cooper.The CNN host appeared Thursday on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to discuss his coming-out journey.In the segment, Cooper said that he never concealed his identity to friends and family. “I never said I wasn’t gay or tried to hide it or pretend that [I was] anything else.
I just … didn’t want to talk about it [publicly]."“But it got to a point in my life where … by not saying something, that seemed like I was indicating that I was somehow ashamed of