Hank Williams Jr.’s Son Sam Williams Comes Out
When Sam Williams, son of musician Hank Williams Jr. and grandson of country legend Hank Williams, decided to come out in a video, he utilized his new single, “Tilted Crown,” to speak his truth.“I felt like I was promoting invisibility, like I wasn’t being visible and wasn’t being myself,” Williams told Apple Music's Proud Radio With Hunter Kelly. “And I just thought it was the perfect opportunity to just show who I was.”“I identify as gay, and I’ve never said that to anybody else.
I mean, people at my label know and people in my personal life know, but this is the first time that I’ve ever been, besides a show or two, that I’ve ever been this public about it.“He also shared what it was like to come out for the first time, to his sister Katie, who died in June 2020 in a horrific car crash.“I told her a few months before then, in Alabama of all places, on the back of a four-wheeler.
We were driving on a four-wheeler about to go eat somewhere, and I just felt called to … and I just felt like I had to, like I was hiding so much.
I think that she could see pain that I was in from hiding that and just had no idea. And I was like, ‘There’s been some situations that have made me uncomfortable and I just want you to know.”In the video, Williams watches a play of his life, which includes his famous lineage.
