Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe a year on since he came out gay
IN July last year five-time Olympic gold medalist Ian Thorpe announced in a TV interview with Michael Parkinson that he was not straight — and as soon as he did he seemingly disappeared from the public eye.
Almost a year later, Thorpe will speak to Julia Zemiro on her new ABC show Home Delivery about life since he publicly came out of closet.
In the interview, to be broadcast on Wednesday, Thorpe about his year off to take time to adjust — explaining that life proved to be “no different” after he came out on TV.
“That period was really interesting for me… there was this period of about two weeks where I had done the interview and was just waiting around to say, ‘hey, I’m out — I’m comfortable with it,” Thorpe says.
Thorpe also answers the question on why he did not speak out about his sexuality earlier in his career.
“I wanted to explain why I hadn’t come out. Part of me felt you shouldn’t have to and it was just something I had never felt was appropriate,” he said.
“Before then, it was something I had never been comfortable with talking about to anyone, let alone the world.”
Watch a preview of the interview here:
Shits me he denied his sexualty for so long and now making money off it. I think he has writes an article for this paper. Man it shits me and I won’t read what he has to say.
What is Ian Thorpe’s position on marriage equality?
cool
Next year it will be about his struggle since his dog died.. For god sake just swim and shut up. Coming out is great and it can be hard and stuff we’ve all been there but it’s done thorpie so please as I said… Shut up!
I have far more respect for Matthew Mitcham, who, because of his openness and honesty, has probably forgone millions of $$$s in potential advertising opportunities. Mr Thorpe milked the guts out of endorsements etc all through his career, then hey presto, comes out when there’s relatively precious little new income to lose…opportunistic and cynical. But with sooo much money in the balance, I guess it was understandably a difficult call for him. My feelings are mixed.
What a waste of editorial space.
Lets hope he can be honest now so we don’t have to question his integrity
is he getting more money for revealing more gay stuff??? i don’t really care & never did in there 1st place but i was kinda annoyed he prostituted his coming out for money …but i guess no one would have offered me $400 K LOL
Gee I wish we all got the money he got for coming out would of been nice hey
Who cares rude prick
Cockhead
No, Tony Abbott is a cockhead!
Get nonna paola 2 interview him. Snobby git.
Just let him be. Give him space to move on.
I thought that I saw Sir Michael Parkinson interview him a year ago ?? Second interview ??
This is a follow up – 1 year since then.