He enrolled in high school, joined the drama club, mostly “because it was for the rejects, the gay kids, very uncool”.
“I discovered that I liked the world of the theater, which was so different from the world of the teen star.”
Addiction took over
“At the end of the day, I was alone, and I couldn’t stop drinking…
In the end, things spiraled so far out of control that he found himself sitting alone in his Malibu condo, completely isolated and teetering on the edge of death.
A close friend, actress Heather Tom, finally walked away. That was a painful wake-up call that forced him to choose between destruction and redemption.
He entered recovery and found that helping others was not just healing, it was transformative.
But 21, while starring in Dr. Quinn, his world came crashing down.
Outed, exposed, and reborn
In 1996, a U.S. tabloid published photos of him kissing another man in a hot tub at a party. The images were sold by someone claiming to be a friend of the couple and splashed across pages, paired with fabricated rumors.
“So I was scared. Just scared,” he said.
