Coming out wasn’t an easy process for Colton Underwood. The former “Bachelor” star is on the cover of the new Variety, and in the issue he reveals that he was blackmailed in the year prior to revealing to the world that he is gay. “I’ll just say it: I, at one point, during my rock bottom and spiral, was getting blackmailed.
Nobody knows I was blackmailed,” he says. RELATED: Cassie Randolph Thanks Fans For Support After Ex Colton Underwood Comes Out As Gay He explains that last year he secretly visited a Los Angeles spa known as a hotspot for gay clientele, and that shortly afterward he received an anonymous email threatening him, claiming nude photos had been taken of him at the venue.