“it was one secret I didn’t need to keep.”

In 2014, he publicly discussed being gay for the first time in an interview with the Sunday Times.

I think its down to every single person to do whats right for them, he said.

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For me, its better to be out.

Im definitely happier," he said on his decision to go public.

“I remember days when I wasnt out and that was a more stressful and unhappy position.

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It was a disability, almost,” he said.

you’re able to read the entire interviewhere.

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