Wilson Cruz Kicked Out Of Home After Coming Out
December 26, 2022In 2020, Cruz told the story on an episode of the At Home With The Creative Coalition podcast and explained that he landed his role as a gay teen on the 90s show My So-Called Life before he had actually come out to his parents.
At the time, Cruz said he was out to basically everybody else in his life, but his parents were the final frontier. He even filmed the pilot for My So-Called Life without coming out to them and without telling them about the show.
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A year later, as MSN writes, when the show got picked up for production, Cruz knew it was time.
“I made a bet with the universe, the next time one of them asks me, I will come out to them,” he said. “My mother asked first, and it was OK, she had a Catholic Latina mom breakdown and then she was fine.
“My father asked me on Christmas Eve a couple months later… We had all of our family there, and my father asked me why I hadn’t brought a girl. I had brought my best friend from high school, a guy. He was drunk and decided that was when he was going to ask. There, in the bathroom on Christmas Eve, my father asked me and I answered honestly, and he kicked me out of the house.”
For the next three months, until My So-Called Life began filming, Cruz alternated between staying with friends and living in his car.
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