In a new interview with Variety, the star – who rose to fame as the titular lead on The Bachelor – revealed that he was blackmailed into coming out after being spotted at a gay bathhouse in Los Angeles sometime last year. “I’ll just say it.
I, at one point, during my rock bottom and spiral, was getting blackmailed. Nobody knows I was blackmailed,” he said. According to the publication, Underwood received an anonymous email from someone claiming to have taken nude photos of him.
The star said he was at the spa “just to look” and “should have never bene there”. The sender threatened to out Underwood, so in “a panic of paranoia” he turned to the on person he could trust, his publicist Alex Spieller, and was forced to “finally have an honest