“I realized I was a big old gay.
I was like, that’s what it’s been.
That’s what it is.
Jessica Gunning.Leon Bennett/Getty
Do you feel like you’re stepping into yourself in new ways now?
“I came out actually in November ‘22.
And that was a mega, mega thing for me.
I’m surrounded by gays.
Like, all my friends are gay, so it wasn’t that I was I repressing anything.
But I realized I was a big old gay.
I was like, that’s what it’s been.
That’s what it is.”
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“That was a massive moment where everything kind of clicked,” Gunning continued.
“And I made sense of myself then.
But as soon as I realized, I was like, it’s that.
That was the most liberating thing.”
And it took me 36 years.
She called the experience “very freeing and very grounding.
Gadd plays a fictionalized version of himself named Donny.
“How I heal myself and my journey is up to me, really.
Their job is to do what’s right for them at the time .
