Bowen Yang opens up about 'healing' after his parents put him in conversion therapy
Bowen Yang is revisiting a “painful” part of his adolescent years.
Bowen Yang is revisiting a “painful” part of his adolescent years.
In a preview clip for the April 13 episode of “Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist,” Yang, who is one of a few openly LGBTQ+ cast members in the 50-year history of “Saturday Night Live,” recalled what it was like to go to gay conversion therapy as a teenager.
When Geist asked him how he worked through that “difficult” time in his life, Yang replied, “I didn’t really get to work through it.”
“I think I probably wasn’t brave enough back then to express that or to package it in a way that they could understand,” he said, referring to his parents. “Because it felt completely foreign to them and it was completely foreign to them. I ‘came out,’ quote, unquote, in the sense that my parents just sort of stumbled upon something.”
In an interview with The New York Times, Yang explained that he “came out” to his parents when he was 17 and his parents discovered him having “lewd conversations” with someone on AOL Instant Messenger.
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