Ricky Martin has opened up about the toll living in the closet took on him, and how coming out led him down the path to true happiness.In a recent appearance on Proud Radio on Apple Music, Martin opened up about his meteoric 1999 rise to fame, and how trying to stay in the closet had a dire effect on his health.“My music was being heard all over the world, regardless of the language,” Martin recalls. “I could high five God, but I wasn’t living to the fullest.
I was sad. I was depressed. I would walk on stage to perform because that was the only way I could balance my emotion is to snap out of this heavy sadness that I was moving in.”That sadness would eventually force Martin to walk away from stardom. “There came a moment that I said, ‘We.