Ricky Martin reflects on his decision to come out publicly as gay
Ricky Martin said his father, a psychologist, was one of the people who encouraged him to come out publicly as gay.
Ricky Martin said his father, a psychologist, was one of the people who encouraged him to come out publicly as gay.
“He said, ‘What are you going to teach your kids, to lie? You got to be open,’” Martin, a father of four, told Andy Cohen on SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live” while promoting his new Apple TV+ series, “Palm Royale.”
“I want to help you. How can we do this?” Martin recalled his father saying. “And I’m like, ‘All right, dad, I’m working on it. Give me a second. I don’t know how. I don’t know if it’s through an interview. I don’t know if I want to write a letter and tweet it. I don’t know. Give me a break. It’ll come.’”
Martin, 52, came out publicly as gay in 2010 in a post on his website. He wrote that the birth of his first two sons, whom he welcomed in 2008 with the help of a surrogate, and writing his memoirs led him to come out following what he described as “years in silence and reflection,” The Guardian reported at the time.
He told Cohen, who is also an out gay man, that the team who represented him as a musician at the time discouraged him from coming out.
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