‘The Vampire Diaries’ Actor Rick Cosnett Comes Out
February 16, 2020The actor Rick Cosnett, who plays Eddie Thawne on ‘The Flash', Wes Maxfield in ‘The Vampire Diaries’ and Elias Harper in ‘Quantico’, came out as gay through a post on his Instagram account.
“Hi, everyone. Dramatic pause … I’m gay,” said the actor in the minute-long video.
He continued by saying: “I just wanted everyone to know because I’ve made a promise to myself to, uh, live my truth every day,” said 36-year-old Cosnett, who played Detective Eddie Thawne on the CW series in 2014 and 2015. “And sometimes that is a really hard thing to do when you have all these subconscious things you don’t even know about from childhood, and from society, and from … just life.
“So, there you go. I’m sure most of you probably knew anyway. And, yeah, that’s actually all I wanted to say,” he continued with a small laugh, adding, “I also have a sty on my eye, which really adds to the whole drama of the whole thing.”
The comments in his post have mostly been positive, with his former ‘The Flash’ co-star Candice Patton writing “you’re one of the good ones. love u,” ‘New York Post’ reports.
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