Olympian Tom Daley Talks Fatherhood, Coming Out, and Being an Advocate
Advocate cover star Daley told Pride Today’s Stephen Walker in an interview upon the U.S. release of Daley’s memoir, Coming Up for Air: What I Learned from Sport, Fame and Fatherhood.
Daley and his husband, Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, have a son, Robert “Robbie” Ray Black-Daley, who will be 4 in June.“Number one, it’s like that’s the most important thing,” Daley said. “So you then start to see things slightly differently.
So when you go to the pool or if you don’t have a good day at the pool … you don’t define yourself by your performance all the time.”“So being able to have that perspective really helped,” he continued. “So going into the Olympics the last time around, where we ended up winning … I just felt so loved, so supported.
And I was like, you know what, no matter what happens here … the most important thing is that I’m gonna go home to a family that loves and supports me no matter what.” What happened at the Tokyo Olympics last summer was a stellar performance.
