Dustin Lance Black, 48, five years ago.“When we get to bed, we always ask each other what our best and worst part of the day was.“It’s a good opportunity to share something nice, but then also share something that [wasn’t].“It doesn’t necessarily have to mean I’m p***ed off about him, it could be anything, but just being able to create that conversation.” A post shared by Tom Daley (@tomdaley)Related: Tom Daley on the reasons he and Dustin Lance Black opted for surrogacyDaley met Black in early 2013.
They became parents to a son, Robbie, in 2018. The couple have indicated they are open to the idea of more kids at some stage.Daley also spoke to Cosmopolitan about how special it was to him to win his gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics last year.“I was thinking of all of the things I had to do to get to that point, all the times my Dad had taken me to training, how I wished he was there to see it,’ he said. ‘How I wished Lance, Robbie and my Mum were there to see it.“It was almost disbelief, but also the first moment where I really felt a true sense of peace and contentment within myself.“For the longest time, I felt like a fraud.“I had impostor syndrome, because I’d never won.
People would refer to me as an Olympic champion or whatever, but I wasn’t, and I never felt like I could correct them. So, to finally have just done it, was just really nice.”Daley is currently taking a break from competitive diving.
He has yet to announce whether he will try to compete at the next Olympics in Paris in 2024.Daley also told Cosmopolitan that he now “wishes he was never in” after coming out on YouTube in 2013.