Sharing his truth. Colton Underwood came out as gay in a Wednesday, April 14, interview, opening up to Robin Roberts about his journey to acceptance, his mental health battle and more.The former Bachelor, 29, said that he was motivated to come out after getting “into a place with [his] personal life that was dark and bad.”The Bachelorette alum explained, “I think overall the reason why now is because I got to a place where I didn’t think I was ever going to share this.
I would have rather died than say, ‘I’m gay.'”The former professional football player first joined the Bachelor franchise when he competed for Becca Kufrin’s heart on season 14 of The Bachelorette.