GettyColton Underwood of The BachelorColton Underwood has added another chapter to his coming out story. Weeks after coming out as gay during an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” the former “Bachelor” star revealed that he had hookups with men before starring as ABC’s leading man. He also shared a story of being blackmailed by a fan who spotted him at a gay spa. Underwood, who is filming a new TV series about his coming out journey, made the new claims in a Variety cover story titled “Controversial Confession.”“I’ll say this: I was ‘the Virgin Bachelor,’ but I did experiment with men prior to being on ‘The Bachelorette,’” Underwood told the magazine. Underwood Claimed His ‘Virgin’ Title Was Not a LieUnderwood’s struggle with his virginity was the main theme of his “Bachelor” season in 2019. He ultimately broke up with his reality TV girlfriend, Cassie Randolph, last May and was later accused of stalking her. In the new interview, Underwood admitted that he had sexual experiences with men before he joined “The Bachelor“ franchise in 2018 as a suitor on Becca Kufrin’s season. The reality star revealed he met men on the gay dating app Grindr under an alias a year or two before joining the reality show and later feared one of the guys he hooked up with would sell a story to a tabloid. Underwood was careful to keep his “Virgin” title intact. “When I say ‘hookups,’ not sex,” he told Variety. “I want to make that very clear that I did not have sex with a man, prior to that.”He added that the guilt he felt from hookups with men is what drove him to apply to be on “The Bachelorette.”“I remember feeling so guilty, like ‘What the hell am I doing?’” he said. “It was my first time letting myself even go there, so much so that I was like, ‘I need ‘The Bachelorette’ in my life, so I could be straight.'”Underwood also revealed that in 2020, he visited a Los Angeles spa known for gay clients “just to look,” and that someone recognized him attempted to “blackmail” him by outing him in the press. The anonymous person claimed to have nude photos of Underwood at the spa and threatened to share them with a tabloid.“I’ll just say it. I, at one point, during my rock bottom and spiral, was getting blackmailed,” Underwood revealed. “Nobody knows I was blackmailed.”After “The Bachelor” star forwarded the blackmailer’s email to his publicist, it helped begin his process of coming out to the public. Colton Underwood Now Admits He Knew He Was Gay From a Young AgeGettyColton Underwood and Cassie Randolph attend the 2019 E! People’s Choice Awards. Underwood told Variety he knew he was “different” at age six and realized he was gay by the time he was a freshman in high school.“By the time I realized that I was gay, I didn’t want to be gay,” he admitted. “It was easy for me to hide in plain sight behind a football mask and hunting and fishing and the things that this world tells us is ‘masculine’ and ‘manly.


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