More dish from Clay Aiken’s coming out story from People mag.
One of American Idol reject’s most difficult moments seems to be when he told his mother Faye that he’s gay. It happened four years ago.
After dropping off his younger brother Brett, who was being deployed to Iraq, at Camp Lejeune, “I started crying in the car,” Aiken remembers. “It was dark. I was sitting there, thinking to myself. I don’t know why I started thinking about it … I just started bawling. She made me pull over the car and it just came out.”
His mom’s reaction? “She started crying. She was obviously somewhat stunned. But she was very supportive and very comforting.” Even now, Aiken admits, “She still struggles with things quite a bit, but she’s come a long way.”
As for his own child, Aiken says that baby Parker – who was conceived via in vitro fertilization with his best friend, music producer Jaymes Foster – will be raised in an environment that is “accepting and allowing him to be happy.”
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I had no idea he was gay
(whistlin’)
His mom was “somewhat stunned”????? Hellllooooo….does she not know her son?
this prick denied it tooth and nail for years, yet he came out to his mom 4 years ago?
What a douche. Good luck getting a date, ya self-hating liar.
Duh…next!!
What about all those hateful fucking claymates who defended him tooth and nail about the gay rumors. Where are those bitches now.
religion plays a big role in this. he probably was fighting it for some time. i my self don’t understand being gay. but this guy was obviously not straight. i am more opposed to creating a baby just to have one then him being gay. now all this stuff we can do with technology, just because we can doesn’t mean we should.
who cares, he is talented and maybe this will help him
Not that I really followed him too much but I don’t remember reading or hearing that he actually denied that he was gay. I thought it was always more a “I don’t talk about my private life” kind of thing. I would imagine finally coming out is pretty freeing no matter what.
WHAT ???? Clay is GAY ???? I, I just can’t believe it !!!! Ha Ha Ha Ha……
oh, but at least for once, he looks decent.
Gay? As in happy????