Continuing with his gay-rumor-restrospect, Shawn Mendes took a plunge into the topic with Dax Shepard on the Armchair Expert podcast, following up on recent comments he made to The Guardian.“You were in a very tough position,” Shepard told Mendes. “There were all these rumors about you being gay early on.
And I remember thinking, ‘oh, you’re in this impossible situation because if you wanna come out and go ‘I’m not gay’ it has some weird veil of homophobia’ which I’m certain you’re not homophobic.”Related: Shawn Mendes talks gay rumors & doesn’t mince his words“It was also so frustrating for me,” Mendes responded, “because there were some people in my life that I was very very close to, who were gay and in the closet.