17 Celebrities Who Were Forced To Hide Their Sexualities To Protect Their Careers
17 Celebrities Who Were Forced To Hide Their Sexualities To Protect Their Careers
Kristen HarrisTue, August 18, 2026 at 2:16 AM UTC
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You've probably heard stories about queer Old Hollywood actors who were forced to hide their sexualities in order to protect their careers. However, it's not just a 1950s problem — celebrities who are young and famous right now have also been pressured to keep their true selves a secret.Here are 17 celebrities who hid their sexualities to protect their careers:1. Growing up gay in Ireland, Andrew Scott saw how other gay people were demonized in the media throughout the AIDS epidemic, and he was 16 before his home country decriminalized homosexuality. In 2023, he told British GQ, "There was so much of me that was quite fearful, actually, and ignoring that side of me. ... I was encouraged, by people in the industry who I really admired and who had my best interests at heart, to keep that [to myself]. I understand why they gave that advice, but I'm also glad that I eventually ignored it."
Cambridge Jones / Getty ImagesIn 2013, he came out while discussing his Russian accent in Legacy. He told the Independent, "There isn't a huge amount of footage of Russians speaking English as a second language, so I started looking at Vladimir Putin videos on YouTube. But then Putin introduced anti-gay legislation this summer — so, being a gay person, I switched to [iconic ballet dancer] Rudolf Nureyev videos instead. It was another Nureyev defection of sorts!"
NurPhoto / NurPhoto via Getty Images2. In 2019, Elliot Page told Net-A-Porter, "I was distinctly told, by people in the industry, when I started to become known: 'People cannot know you're gay.' And I was pressured – forced, in many cases – to always wear dresses and heels for events and photo shoots. As if lesbians don't wear dresses and heels. But I will never let anyone put me in anything I feel uncomfortable in ever again."
CBS Photo Archive / CBS via Getty ImagesHe came out in a speech at the 2015 Time to THRIVE conference, saying, "I'm here today because I am gay. And because…maybe I can make a difference. To help others have an easier and more hopeful time. Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility... [I am] tired of hiding, and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered, and my relationships suffered. And I'm standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of all that pain."
Christopher Polk / Deadline via Getty ImagesThey decided to come out after starring in Freeheld. Elliot told Out, "I remember thinking, [Elliot], how in God's name could you make this film and not be out? What's interesting to me is how long it took to make the movie — for it to finally come together — and how my internal progression toward coming out was naturally in line with it. Stacie and Laurel's story is incredibly inspiring and did take a lot of courage, particularly in a time of such unimaginable difficulty. It really did make me go, Dude, just tell people you're gay. Just get over yourself, honestly, and support those who are not as privileged. It's like, You have fucking privilege, so do something with it."
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3. Stephanie Beatriz kept her bisexuality "hidden for a really long time." In 2023, she told Page Six, "I thought, 'Oh, it may affect my career. It might have an effect on some of my relationships.' And it did, and probably does. ... I think as a bisexual woman who is currently married to a man, what was important to me was that the world knew that I wanted to be open about who I was."
Phillip Faraone / Getty Images for MPTFShe came out via Twitter in 2016. Her Brooklyn Nine-Nine character, Detective Rosa Diaz, later came out as bi on the show. At SDCC 2018, Stephanie said, "Dan [Goor, the showrunner] is not only a brilliant writer, but a person who believes in equality. He wanted a bisexual person's voice to be heard in that storyline, and it just so happened the person playing the character they wanted to be bi is also bi. I was thrilled, and it reflected, for me, the reality of my own life."
NBC / Viayoutube.com4. Chris Colfer famously played Kurt Hummel — a role that was written just for him — on Glee. However, despite playing an openly gay character, he was advised against coming out in real life. In 2024, he told The View, "I grew up in a very conservative town where being openly gay was dangerous. [When] I read the script for the first time was when I saw that it was an openly gay character, and I was terrified. ... When I started filming the show, I had a lot of people tell me, 'Do not come out, whatever you do, because it will ruin your career.' So I hid for a little bit. ... I also told them, 'I can't hide it with my voice; I'm more effeminate than most people. I can't hide it.' And they said, 'Don't worry. As long as you never address it, you'll be rewarded for it in the end.'"
Carin Baer / © Fox Television / Courtesy: Everett CollectionHowever, a special moment with a young fan encouraged Chris to come out. He said, "We went on this big poster signing tour right before the show came out, and this little boy secretly slid me an envelope when his parents weren't looking, and I opened it up, and it was a little note that said, 'Thank you.' There was a little paper clip chain that was the colors of the rainbow. In that moment I knew, I have to come out. I was thinking, 'OK, yeah, if I'm an openly gay actor, yeah, I may never win a major award. I may never get to play a superhero. [...] But I think being a beacon of positivity and providing that comfort for people is way more important than attention.'"
Carin Baer / © Fox Television / Courtesy: Everett CollectionThanks to Glee, Chris went on to earn two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and to win a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series.
Michael Loccisano / Getty Images for Elton John AIDS Foundation5. In 2023, Barry Manilow told CNN's Chris Wallace, "In the '70s, you know, you didn't [come out as gay]. It wasn't the same as it is today. Now being gay is no big deal, but back in the '70s, it would have killed a career. The public was not ready for anybody to come out. And frankly, it was just too personal. I just didn't want to talk about my personal life anyway. I never did that. I was happy talking about music. But talking about my personal life was just kind of creepy to me. So I never did."
Jack Mitchell / Getty ImagesBarry was in a secret relationship with his manager, Garry Kief, for 39 years before coming out publicly in 2017 — three years after they tied the knot! He told People, "I thought I would be disappointing [fans] if they knew I was gay. So I never did anything. When they found out that Garry and I were together, they were so happy. The reaction was so beautiful — strangers commenting, 'Great for you!' I'm just so grateful for it."
Kevork Djansezian / Getty ImagesHe also told Chris Wallace, "I met Garry right around when [his career] was exploding. And I didn't have to go back to those empty hotel rooms. I had somebody to cry with or to celebrate with. I wish that young people, that they don't have to go back to those hotel rooms by themselves because you get yourself in trouble. I never did. But it was pretty lonely until I met Garry. And then it was fun. ... I think [coming out] was a non-event for me. Really, Garry and I've been together for so long, it just never dawned on me it's ever going to come out. ... When we came out, I think everybody knew that Garry and I were a couple all those years."
Mat Hayward / Getty Images6. Throughout his nearly 40-year career, Old Hollywood icon Rock Hudson hid his identity as a gay man. His agent, Henry Willson, made him change a lot of things about himself when they first met. He swapped his real name, Roy Fitzgerald, for a "manly" stage name and shaped him into the then-current ideal of American masculinity. After Henry shut down an exposé on Rock's sexuality, the actor married the agent's secretary, Phyllis Gates, in 1955, though they divorced three years later. However, while he wasn't out publicly, he was out to his close friends, like Doris Day, who kept his secret. He also dated men. In the documentary Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed, his former partner, Lee Garlington, said, "We were ordered never to have our picture taken together, because somebody would know that we were gay."
Screen Archives / Getty ImagesThen, in the '80s, Rock was diagnosed with AIDS. However, he kept it a secret because of the fear surrounding the AIDS epidemic. At the time, some people falsely believed that the virus could be transmitted by kissing, so he held back while filming kissing scenes with his Dynasty costar, Linda Evans. She said, "They wanted it to be passionate, and it didn't end up being that... [He was kissing her] very timidly, very unromantically. And I knew he knew how to kiss passionately, and that's why I was surprised. He's a fine actor. He knows what he's doing. So, it was confusing."
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A year after his diagnosis, Rock went to Paris for treatment, and his publicist released the following statement: "Mr. Rock Hudson has acquired immune deficiency syndrome, which was diagnosed over a year ago in the United States." The actor's biographer, Mark Griffin, said, "He's actually forced, if you can believe it, to charter, at the expense of $250,000, a 747 which would fly him back to America, essentially home to die, as it were, because no commercial flights at that time would willingly accept even an A-list celebrity who was dying of AIDS."
Images Press / Getty ImagesSadly, Rock died of AIDS a few months after disclosing his diagnosis publicly. However, his decision to speak about it publicly changed the way AIDS was perceived. In a telegram he sent to a fundraiser, he said, "I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others, I can at least know that my own misfortune has had some positive worth." In the documentary, the biographer said, "Because everyone knew Rock Hudson, now everyone in the world knew somebody who had AIDS. And suddenly, there was public interest... It was Rock's own physician who said, 'Rock Hudson was the single most influential AIDS patient in history, because he changed the way that the disease was perceived.'"
Bob Riha Jr / WireImage / Via Getty7. In 2022, Jim Parsons told Them, "When I first started acting, one of my greatest hurdles was finding a way to be honest onstage without revealing my sexuality, both as a way to protect myself and sometimes for fear that my [being] gay would ruin the take I would have on a straight character. And I definitely think that that deep, deep fear of being not only found out, but then abandoned once you were found out, I think it definitely affected my trust in myself, because, if I left myself to all my own choices, then eventually, the truth would come out. And, at some level, I felt that the truth that came out would make me be left alone without love or support."
Frederick M. Brown / Getty ImagesHe continued, "That's what's important to me and important to anybody that ever watches anything I do is that I am able to share my life experience, and so, whether or not the character is gay, my not being afraid of being gay or anyone knowing that is so additive for another layer of richness to anything that I can play." Jim publicly came out in a 2012 New York Times profile, confirming his decade-long relationship with Todd Spiewak (whom he later married in 2017).
Cindy Ord / Getty Images8. Teen Wolf actor Colton Haynes lost his first Hollywood manager for being "too gay." In a 2021 essay for Vulture, he wrote, "The thing that made me valuable in private — my conspicuously gay sexuality — was a liability as I tried to make my way through the industry. This was in an era when casual homophobia was still a regular punch line on TV sitcoms. Modern Family wouldn't premiere until a few years after I arrived in LA. Actors had only begun to come out publicly, and none of them looked like the straight romantic lead. There are still few gay leading men in Hollywood who are out of the closet. So I did what I was told to do."
Chad Buchanan / Getty Images"I took lessons with a voice instructor, who had me talk while holding a highlighter between my teeth for the entire class so that when I took it out, my diction was crisp and clear. I practiced speaking with a folded Post-it note under my tongue to teach me to make my S sounds less sibilant, since the softness of them made me sound gay. Within a few weeks of being dropped by Brad, after cold-calling casting offices and messengering my headshot around town, I booked my first role in an episode of CSI: Miami. The day after it aired, calls started pouring in from companies wanting to represent me," he said.
Tommaso Boddi / WireImage / Via GettyHe continued, "I signed with a new team, but the rules were the same. It considered the [gay magazine] XY photo shoot I had done so radioactive, it had lawyers send cease-and-desist letters to anyone who posted the images online. When I was photographed cozying up with Lauren Conrad at an event in 2011, I was told not to deny our rumored relationship — better to have the tabloids speculate about us. (She must have known I was gay, but we never spoke about it.) At a photo shoot for a fashion editorial, the XY pictures were up on the mood board. A member of my team threw a fit. I understood because it was explained to me repeatedly — by managers, agents, publicists, executives, producers — that the only thing standing between me and the career I wanted was that I was gay. It was like this for my best years of work, throughout the early 2010s, as I built a career on young-adult shows like MTV's Teen Wolf and the CW superhero series Arrow."
Tiffany Rose / WireImage / Via GettyColton wrote, "My mental health deteriorated, and I grew dependent on alcohol and pills. When a doctor suggested my secret was making me sick, I knew he was right. I came out of the closet in an interview with Entertainment Weekly in 2016. I hoped it would set me free, and in some ways it did. An outpouring of support followed. But people also published think pieces saying it had taken me too long; another gay actor implied the way I'd done it was cowardly. And incidentally, the work mostly dried up."
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9. Raven-Symoné kept her sexuality a secret for a long time because she worried how it would impact her career as a child performer. She told It Gets Better, "My likeness… had 15 people dictating what I should and should not look like, if I did whatever I want, I'm not gonna sell, 'cause it doesn't go with the brand. I was branded at such a young age... My awareness of my sexuality was prevalent to me at 12, but there was some things younger, in like the single digits. I had friends that I experimented with, but I never went far because I knew that this can't be talked about... I never thought I would come out because my personal life didn't matter; it was only what was supposed to be sold as the 'Raven-Symoné' brand."
© Disney Channel / Courtesy: Everett CollectionShe made herself date boys, but eventually, she fell in love for real. She came out in 2013, tweeting, "I can finally get married! Yay government! So proud of you." She told It Gets Better, "If I had to speak to someone that was going through a problem in their life that feels too large to even deal with, the good news is: It will pass. You'll get bumps and bruises. But if you stick through it, people forget. People forget, and time goes on, and hopefully, you learn from it. Don't stress. Learn how to deal with it now that you're young. Openness is most important because it doesn't matter what you see me as and [what] you label me. It's what I label myself [that matters]."
Presley Ann / Getty Images for Alliance for Women in Media Foundation10. When Hunter Doohan auditioned for Your Honor in 2019, he was openly gay and dating Fielder Jewett, whom he married in 2022. However, Hunter still felt pressured to hide his sexuality. In 2025, he told the Zach Sang Show, "[It was] the first time I'd done a network test, and they were really scrutinizing. I really was trying to hide it. I went and hid pictures of us on Instagram, archived them." He added that he did it because, "[My partner] was like, 'Oh yeah, are you worried about this?' But yeah, I don't know."
JC Olivera / WireImage / Via GettyHunter landed the role but still kept his sexuality quiet on set. He said, "I was at lunch one time with Bryan [Cranston], and I said, '[My friend] Grace called again.' ... And he's like, 'Oh, just a friend?' And I thought, 'Oh God… I've been out for eight years, and I have to come out of the closet again.' It was so unsettling and awful. I was like, 'I'm never going to do that for a role again.'"
Skip Bolen / ©Showtime / Courtesy Everett Collection11. New Kids on the Block's manager allegedly knew Jonathan Knight was gay but encouraged the singer to remain in the closet. Appearing on Frosted Tips With Lance Bass in 2023, Jonathan said, "He pulled me aside, and he was like, 'If anybody finds out, then your career is over, the New Kids' career is over.' My manager said, 'My career is over... Sony's going to, like, lose money.' It was just so much pressure. Looking back, that's a lot of pressure to put on somebody who is just trying to figure out the world themselves."
Vinnie Zuffante / Getty ImagesJonathan left NKOTB in 1994. He continued, "There were a few reasons. Number one, being a young gay kid, I was frustrated and wanted to get on with my own life. The other reason, it just felt like it was not going anywhere, and I just wanted to be home. ... Even when we got back together, I still wasn't out publicly. It was a boyfriend of mine that sold pictures of us to the National Enquirer."
Tim Roney / Getty ImagesIn 2011, the '80s pop star Tiffany inadvertently outed him to the public. On Watch What Happens Live, she said that she dated him, but "he became gay later." On Twitter, Jonathan assured her, "I know you weren't being mean and I found it to be funny!" Then, in a blog post, he said, "I have never been outed by anyone but myself! I did so almost twenty years ago. I never knew that I would have to do it all over again publicly just because I reunited with NKOTB! I have lived my life very openly and have never hidden the fact that I am gay!"
Ron Galella, Ltd. / Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images12. Movie star Tab Hunter rose to fame in the '50s. In an essay for the Hollywood Reporter, he wrote, "I was — am — gay. That wasn't the sort of topic that one spoke freely about back then, since it could spell the end of one's career, but it was the sort of topic that people gossiped about, and there were no shortage of gossips back then, either.... Neither [gossip columnist Hedda Hopper or Louella Parsons] would openly discuss my sexuality — they couldn't in those days — but both periodically made subtle references to it in their columns, wondering when I was going to settle down with a nice girl and then, after the studio began pairing me with my dear friend Natalie Wood on faux-dates, asking if I was 'the sort of guy' she wanted to end up with."
Silver Screen Collection / Getty ImagesHowever, at the time, a "rag" called Confidential didn't have any respect for stars' privacy. To prevent the outlet from outing Rock Hudson, agent Henry Willson "cut a deal with them to keep Rock out of their pages, feeding them dirt on [Tab] instead." Tab continued, "Specifically, he made them aware of the fact that five years earlier, before I was anybody, I had been arrested for disorderly conduct when police raided a party at which I — and a number of other gay people — were in attendance. Confidential then ran the story on its cover and described it as a 'pajama party,' insinuating that it had been some sort of gay orgy."
Hulton Archive / Getty ImagesWhile filming 1984's Lust in the Dust, Tab met his husband, producer Allan Glaser. They got married in 2013 and were together until Tab's death in 2018. Tab came out publicly in his 2005 memoir Tab Hunter Confidential. He later told Slant magazine, "Allan was very much a part [of] it. He said to me, 'I hear there's going to be [a] book done on you. I think you should write a book.' And I said, 'Who would want to read a book about me?' He said, 'You'd be surprised.' So I thought I better get it from the horse's mouth, not from some horse's ass after I'm dead and gone, because people who never knew you will put a spin on your life and make up whatever the heck they want. And that's not fair. You know, I have nothing to hide."
David Livingston / Getty Images13. In 2024, Darryl Stephens told BuzzFeed, "I've written a book where I talk about how, as a young actor, [I was] influenced by the people [I hired to] handle [my] career. I had an agent at the time who was also gay, and he said, 'We're putting you up for soaps. If you're [openly] gay, you're not gonna [get booked for roles].' When Noah's Arc launched, [series creator Patrik-Ian Polk] sat all the actors down and said, 'None of us are gonna talk about our sexuality in public.'"
Matt Miller / © Paramount+ with Showtime /Courtesy Everett Collection"[I think it was] because of what [he'd] seen with shows like Queer as Folk, in terms of how much press and attention the straight actors were getting for being [quote unquote] brave enough to play gay characters. There was always that fear of if they find out [I'll] never work [again]. What's interesting is that once I came out, I was getting tons of work, and it was all good work," he said.
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Darryl continued, "Working in Hollywood, not talking about [my sexuality], and then not working, I thought, 'Why am I not talking about it? If I'm not working anyway.' As far as I could see, being open about it can only help. Q. Allan Brocka, who directed the film I did called Boy Culture in 2006, said to me, 'If you ever wanted to come out publicly, I will do everything I can to make sure to navigate that in a way that is good for your career.' Once Noah's Arc wrapped that same year, I was approached to be part of Out magazine's Out 100 list. I leaped at the opportunity. That's when I embraced the opportunity to talk about it in ways that felt unfettered and uncontrolled. I'd been living [out loud in] my daily life for years, though."
Leon Bennett / Getty Images for Paramount+14. In the early '60s, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis actor Sheila Kuehl was set to star in a spin-off about her popular character, Zelda Gilroy. However, though the pilot was filmed, the series was axed. In 2007, she told California Conversations, "Just prior to that, I was staying at UCLA, in a sorority, and my sorority found letters my partner had written to me. I had gotten in a relationship with a woman when I was 17, and it was so natural. I had all these boyfriends, boyfriends, boyfriends, and then I met this woman, and oh, this is what it feels like to fall in love. I mean, it was so different. Everybody tells you it's not innate, you cannot believe it. And so, they found letters she had written to me. I went back for my senior year, and they kicked me out of the sorority."
Gene Trindl / TV Guide / courtesy Everett CollectionShe continued, "Then the pilot was made, and it didn't sell. We were working late, and the director took me for a walk and said, 'The president of CBS thinks you're a little too butch.' My partner and I were very young and very, very deeply in the closet. She was 2.5 to 3 years older. We were very deeply in the closet for obvious reasons, and scared to death because I didn't know anybody like us at all. You know, I'd heard there were queer people, and that it was a terrible thing to be, so it was a very difficult time. I felt that cold feeling like somebody smashed an ice cap on my head, and it all ran down the back of my neck. I thought, 'Now everybody will know.' ...I only did four [episodes] the fourth year, and I had done 39 a year before. It was over."
Gene Trindl / TV Guide / courtesy Everett CollectionAfterward, Sheila only appeared in one more short-lived series. She said, "I didn't come out for years and years and years and years. I mean, you learn a lesson that somebody even suspects you're gay, and you lose your whole career. I went to work at UCLA. I had a lot of jobs over the next several years, because I didn't really know what to do. I thought I would be an actress. I thought it was a great tragedy losing my career."
CBS Photo Archive / CBS via Getty ImagesAfter her acting career dwindled, she considered suicide. However, she found a new passion — feminism. At UCLA, she went on to co-found the Women's Resource Center. She landed a job advising the university's student organizations, and at 34, she went to law school. She came out to her family at 39 and started being open about her sexuality during her relationship with Torie Osborn, who was active in the emerging lesbian movement. In 1994, Sheila became "the first openly gay or lesbian member elected to the California Assembly."
Chelsea Guglielmino / Getty Images for Lambda Legal15. Raymond Burr became a huge TV star in the '60s and '70s with dramatic leading roles in Perry Mason and Ironside. He never shared much about his private life, though he told people that his wife and child had died. However, in reality, he was secretly gay, and he was in a relationship with fellow actor/producer Robert Benevides from 1960 until his death in 1993. The couple lived in California before moving to a private island in Fiji. Their personal and work lives were intertwined, and together, they ran a production company, a vineyard, an orchid nursery, and an art gallery.
Gene Trindl/TV Guide / courtesy Everett CollectionRobert continued to run their vineyard after Raymond's death. He told Passport magazine, "It was never my dream; it was his dream. When he died in '93, we still hadn't released any of the wines. I finally decided it should be called Raymond Burr Vineyards. He didn't want it named after him, I know that. We had talked about that possibility, and he didn't like that at all, but we're making great wines now. It's a memorial to him, to his idea, and I think it deserves to be named after him."
Martin Mills / Getty Images16. The Brady Bunch actor Robert Reed was reportedly gay, but he kept it a secret until his death in 1992. Florence Henderson, who played his onscreen wife, was one of the few people who knew. She told ABC News, "Here he was, the perfect father of this wonderful little family, a perfect husband. He was an unhappy person … I think had Bob not been forced to live this double life, I think it would have dissipated a lot of that anger and frustration... I never challenged him. I had a lot of compassion for him because I knew how he was suffering... I don't think The Brady Bunch could have existed at that time with the public knowing that Robert Reed was gay. I just don't think they would have bought it."
CBS Photo Archive / CBS via Getty ImagesFellow costar Barry Williams told the outlet, "It probably would have caused the demise of the show. I think it would have hurt his career tremendously."
CBS Photo Archive / CBS via Getty Images17. And finally, in the early '00s, Matt Bomer spent four months auditioning for a Superman role and signed a three-picture deal with Warner Bros. However, he seemingly lost out on the part because of gossip about his sexuality. In 2024, he told the Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast, "That was a time in the industry when something like [being gay] could still really be weaponized against you. How and why and who, I don't know, but that's my understanding."
Jim Spellman / WireImage / Via GettyMatt didn't publicly come out as gay until 2012, a year after he married Simon Halls. He said, "I wasn't closeted on any of my jobs, with the exception of one where I felt like it really wasn't safe. There was language being used on the set and things that were really offensive, and I just thought, I need to just hunker down here and get through, soldier through. But other than that, I was really always open and honest about myself with actors and people in the industry, so I wasn't living some kind of closeted life. I just didn't really have anybody audience-wise to come out to. But certain doors had already started to close for me, and then once I came out, I would say some more did as well. But I would say there were just as many that opened in other regards, and I started to find the artists and creators who I really vibed with."
Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / FilmMagic / Via GettySome advice from Diahann Carroll encouraged him to come out. He asked her about dealing with pressure from society, and she said that, rather than participating in public discourse regarding her life, she viewed herself as an actor playing a part. Matt told Awards Chatter, "That was such a hugely inspirational message, and so it kind of fit for me when an organization she was working with wanted to honor me with some award, I thought, 'OK, I'm gonna thank my family and just treat it like anyone would thank their family.' I had opportunities to be on magazine covers and do all that kind of splashy thing, which no judgment there, but it just wasn't for me. I wanted to normalize it. I wanted it to be a part of an organic speech, and I think that just felt like the right way for me."
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