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Wentworth Miller: I Tried To Kill Myself As A Gay Teen

Wentworth Miller made a brave confession at the Human Rights Campaign gala in Seattle last night: Discussing his coming-out process the actor-turned- screenwriter admitted that he attempted committing suicide "more than once" as a teen.

“The first time I tried to kill myself I was 15,” he told the audience at the Seattle Sheraton, where singer Brandi Carlile was also an honoree. “I waited until my family went away for the weekend and I was alone in the house and I swallowed a bottle of pills. I don’t remember what happened over the next couple of days, but I’m pretty sure come Monday morning I was on the bus back to school pretending everything was fine.”

Miller, who came out last month in a letter addressing anti-gay prejudice in Russia, says he he was a target for bullies in school: "Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the right way: Every day was a test and there was a thousand ways to fail. A thousand ways to portray yourself to not live up to someone else’s standards of what was accepted.”

He also took responsibility for not coming out earlier, which some activists had criticized the 41-year-old for: “I had multiple opportunities to speak my truth, which was that I was gay,. But I chose not to. I was out in private, to family and friends … but professionally, publicly, I was not. I chose to lie. When I thought about the possibility of coming out, how that might impact me and the career I worked so hard for, I was filled with fear."

Source: US Weekly, TMZ

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