Anderson Cooper On Being Gay: “One Of The Great Blessings Of My Life”

CNN host Anderson Cooper talked about his coming-out journey where he stated that being gay is a blessing. While in ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ Cooper revealed that he never concealed his identity to family and friends, stating that “I never said I wasn’t gay or tried to hide it or pretend that [I was] anything else. I just … didn’t want to talk about it [publicly].

“But it got to a point in my life where … by not saying something, that seemed like I was indicating that I was somehow ashamed of something or not happy being gay,” he added. “And the complete opposite has always been the case.”

Cooper, who didn’t discuss his sexuality publicly until 2012, now says “[I] wish I had done it sooner.” His coming out came in 2012 when he allowed a newspaper to publish an email he had sent to a friend of his where he stated: “The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.”

Now, he states that “I consider it, along with Wyatt, one of the great blessings of my life to be gay.

”Even though I’m kind of painfully shy, an introvert and stuff, I thought, OK, well, I want to say something. And so I did, and I couldn’t be happier.”

According to the ‘Advocate’, Cooper is now raising his newborn son, Wyatt Morgan Cooper, with his ex-partner Benjamin Maisani.

Watch the interview bellow:

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