“People, they think you cant be gay and a Christian, and I am.”
“And so, if I do something that hurts the show, that hurts them.”
“I wasnt trying to hide.”
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Her hesitation to be public about her sexuality stemmed from her Christianity.
“I was afraid,” Robert said.
“People, they think you cant be gay and a Christian, and I am.
I was so fearful that I would be shunned.”
She said, “And then I think about all those years I wasted, worried needless worry.
And we all are guilty of this.
Think about all these things that we worry about that never come to fruition.
And we just spend all of this energy on that.”
“But also,” Roberts added, “I had to believe this was right on time.
This was the time in my life that was right.
And I can’t even imagine now people not knowing everything about me.
And you know what’s so freeing about it also?
It’s like, ‘Bring it on.
You know everything about me.
And I have nothing to hide.’
And to still be embraced, I am blessed and highly favored.
I’m so grateful.
Their courtship began via a blind date set up by mutual friends.
“She took my breath away,“Roberts previously recalled of their first meetingto GMA.
“And she still does.”
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