'Bachelor' Star Colton Underwood Says He 'Tried Everything To Be Straight'
Bachelor star Colton Underwood says coming out was a very hard decision for him, and that he even used the popular reality show as a way to make himself straight.Underwood spoke about his time in the closet on the Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen After-Show.
The conversation was spurred by a fan question to fellow guest, Summer House's Danielle Olivera, about her opinions on whether castmate Craig Conover was "boyfriend material."Following the question, host Andy Cohen asked Underwood if he was familiar with the "oeuvre of Craig." Underwood said he "saw Craig on Instagram once or twice," and the two segue into a conversation about being closeted."Instagram was my way to, like, look without being caught.
Like the Explorer page was pretty interesting. I was like, guarding my Explorer page [more] than I was my DMs," he said."When you were closeted, were you, like, downloading Grindr and deleting it constantly?" Cohen asked referring to the popular gay dating app."Oh, yeah.
And all of the cover ups and praying and trying self-conversion therapy on myself by becoming The Bachelor. So I've pretty much tried everything to be straight and it didn't work," Underwood replied. "I just love being gay now."Though appearing on The Bachelor is an unorthodox method of "conversion therapy," the practice is a very real and harmful thing that some LGBTQ people go through.
