Wentworth Miller came out publicly at the end of last month, but the actor is now revealing how much of a struggle it was to do that. He also confessed to attempting to commit suicide more than once.
The Prison Break star came out in a letter, declining to visit Russia.
“Thank you for your kind invitation. As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make me happy to say yes. However, as a gay man, I must decline,” he wrote, which appeared on GLAAD’s website.
While speaking at the Human Rights Campaign gala over the weekend, Miller described his teenage years.
"The first time I tried to kill myself I was 15. I waited until my family went away for the weekend and I was alone in the house and I swallowed a bottle of pills. I don't remember what happened over the next couple days, but I'm pretty sure come Monday morning I was on a bus back to school pretending everything was fine. And when someone asked me if that was a cry for help, I say no, because I told no one,” he said.
E! Online reports he also said he had “multiple opportunities” to come out publicly, “but I chose not to. I was out privately to family and friends—publicly, I was not.”
"I chose to lie—when I thought about the possibility of coming out, how that might impact me and the career I worked so hard for, I was filled with fear,” he said.
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