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Colton Haynes: "My Dad Killed Himself Because He Found Out I Was Gay"

The actor opens up about family tragedy and finally coming out publicly.

Colton Haynes graces the cover of Out magazine's September issue, with a personal interview about his childhood and his life as an out actor in Hollywood.

In the article Haynes talks about being an out teenager and the infamous XY Magazine cover that followed him through his career, and how his team tried to have it scrubbed from the internet:

“I looked like I was fucking gay-bashing,” Haynes said about the photo shoot. “Like I hated myself or I hated the gays, which was never the intention at all. I was just young and trying to make it in this town and doing what these people were telling me to do.”

The former Arrow star also reveals that his father committed suicide and how his sexuality might have been to blame:

“But I was told that my dad killed himself because he found out I was gay. So, of course, I lost it and was like, ‘How could you say something like that?’ And no one will ever really know the truth. But my brother and my mom went to pick up my dad’s stuff, and the only picture on his fridge was my eighth-grade graduation picture. So I was just like, F*ck.”

He also comments on the recent controversy surrounding The Real O'Neal's Noah Galvin who called Haynes' coming out in Entertainment Weekly "f*cking pussy bullshit":

“When I came out, Noah tweeted, ‘Welcome to the family,’ and ‘So proud of you,’ ” Haynes says. “I have the tweets saved on my phone. Then, all of a sudden, I’m the worst, I’m a terrible person, and I’m a shame to the gay community. I think just having enough nerve and guts to come out in any way is a lot. It was really an emotional thing for me. And for that to be discredited by someone who has never met me was upsetting. He has no idea what I’ve been through. And I can’t sit here and have a conversation about Noah because I don’t know him either.” Galvin was unavailable for comment for this story, but his reps did offer to share his subsequent public apology, which is one thing Haynes has no qualms critiquing. “I think anyone in their right mind would call bullshit on that,” he says.

For more head on over to Out.com to read the entire personal interview.

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