”Every teen girl’s dream” in the ’90s now lives a quite life and works as a psychologist

”There were certainly plenty of people in my life who didn’t know I was gay, because they never cared to ask or weren’t close enough to me, but there were plenty of people who already knew,” he said.

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Lawyers, managers, and executives debated how to “handle” him. But he refused to play along. The cast of Dr. Quinn was supportive, and he stayed on the family-friendly show, but once the series wrapped up, “it was tough.”

“My dad couldn’t look me in the eye. And that hurt. Because a boy always wants his dad’s acceptance. And I knew I’d been lying to them”, the actor shared.

His mother, unsure how to react, began to cry and said she had always assumed he was too cute not to have a girlfriend.

The fallout was painful, but something unexpected happened. Letters startedContinue reading…

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