Will Young recalled feeling 'shame' for attending Pride parades after music bosses tried to keep him in the closet. The star, 42, attended his first parade in 2014 after spending his life feeling 'wrong and bad and evil'.
Speaking about the music bosses, he told YouTube Originals: "People did try and sort of initially shut me out but I’d been through too much pain to get to this stage to own it for myself." He never got to see a lot of 'representation' while he was growing up, which added to the shame he felt.
Will explained: "The antithesis of Pride is shame. I have to remind myself that I’ve grown up in a society — fair enough it was different times — but from a very young age where I’ve felt wrong and bad and evil actually. "And I