Chris Appleton

And I think in having kids and this bond that just never left and never will, um,

And yeah, she saved me in many ways.

She's the one that found me when I tried to kill myself.

And, you know, she was the one that, like I say, even when she was in the most pain and shame and probably should have just hated me and never want to talk to me again.

She didn't because she could see what I was going through.

She could see what happened to me as a kid.

She could see why I was in the place I was.

And that takes a lot of compassion for someone to be able to do that.

I think I was trying to understand something that I didn't and couldn't because you can't, it took years to get it right and understand what had happened to me and why I made the decision.

to try and prove people wrong before I'd even let myself develop who I was.

So when I did come out, it was very quick and everyone started to talk and there was just conversations all around.

And when there's a secret, people want to know what that secret is.

When people know, no one really cares.

But, you know, when there's a secret.

And so I told Kate, I told my parents, and it wasn't like a nice way.

I was kind of shouting it.

I'm gay.

You know, it was like this...

Because I couldn't stand it.

You know, I couldn't get rid of it.