The actor Luke Evans has admitted that he was terrified of losing the deep connection that he has always united with his parents if, as it finally happened, he plucked up the courage and decided to reveal his homosexuality to them.
Almost three decades have passed since such a step on his path to self-acceptance, but the 43-year-old Welsh interpreter still vividly remembers the fear and insecurities that invaded him at the possibility that his parents would not accept him as he was. it was.
Fortunately, that was not the case and Evans has now wanted to recall the relief he felt at having such a burden off his shoulders. “Coming out is always terrifying. I didn’t know anyone who was openly gay during my teenage years, and I was afraid to say anything that would damage my connection with the two people I loved the most in the world,” he explained.
“But my parents were able to understand who I was and that I couldn’t change. And they accepted it. I admit it was difficult, but we got through it together,” he said in his talk with The Times newspaper, in which he also talked about the benefits psychological therapy had for him in helping him process his budding fame.
“Therapy helped me process a lot of negative things. It took me a while, but it’s something I’ve definitely benefited from in the last ten years. My workload is huge and I work a lot. Sometimes I didn’t process things precisely because I was very busy”, he concluded.