Sitting down with People for their Pride issue, the singer revealed he felt violated when Walters asked if he was gay. “When she dropped the question, I felt violated because I was just not ready to come out.
I was very afraid. There’s a little PTSD with that,” he explained. “A lot of people say, what would you do differently? Well, maybe I would have come out in that interview.
It would’ve been great because when I came out, it just felt amazing. “When it comes to my sexuality, when it comes to who I am, I want to talk about everything that I am.
Because if you hide it, it’s a life-or-death situation.” Before coming out in 2010, Martin revealed that he had numerous relationships with women, and described sexuality as a “complicated thing.”