Wentworth Miller has been opening up about his decision to come out as a gay man to Details magazine. He says that after revealing his sexuality, “I feel more fully expressed. After Prison Break, I came to grips with the fact that my public persona was in misalignment with how I actually felt. I was out to a handful of people in my twenties, and once I hit 30, I was out to family and friends. But professionally, I was feeding a fantasy. I created this air of ‘We don’t address that thing.'”
When he did come out, there was criticism in some quarters (as there has been recently regarding Ian Thorpe) about the fact that in the past he had vehemently denied he was gay. However he says that at the time, “My face was on billboards, and I thought it was my job to act a certain way. But I think audiences knew to a certain degree.”
Miller also takes the chance to talk about his struggles with serious depression, saying, “I’m part of a group called the ManKind Project. It’s a circle of men I sit in with every week that’s a safe sounding board for whatever’s up for me: good, bad, ugly, really ugly. We know how to respond to someone coming out now—we’ve had that training—but admit you’re sad or that you’ve thought about suicide and people don’t know what to do. With sadness, particularly with men, that conversation is unfamiliar.”
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