Former Bachelor star Colton Underwood, who was long-labeled the “virgin” Bachelor, revealed he used to hook up with married men before signing on to date dozens of women on the ABC reality TV show.
If you don’t know, the now 34-year-old former NFL player was The Bachelor back in 2019, and he chose Cassie Randolph at the end.
In 2021, he publicly came out as gay.
In a new interview, Colton Underwood explained hooking up with men prior to his 2019 gig as The Bachelor
“I was very careful, even when I was physically experimenting with guys and trying to, like, figure myself out. I was so careful on how I did everything,” he said on the We Need to Talk podcast.
He then revealed why he’d only hook up with “straight” married men.
Colton said, “To protect myself, I would only hook up with married men. [Married] ‘straight’ men. So that was sort of my rule that I would never break. When I was in the closet, that would be the only time I would ever hook up with men was if they were married… because they had more to lose than I did.”
“So if they tried to, you know, ruin my career and my life for football, they had a whole family that they’d be risking as well. So it’s a messed up thing to think through, but like it was a form of self [preservation]… it was just like a way to protect myself,” he said.
He also spoke about being labeled the virgin Bachelor
“I remember I always got asked why I was a virgin. So that was the storyline that they wanted to run with, and I hated it ’cause I didn’t want that pressure, and then I also didn’t want people digging in because at that time I had hooked up with men,” he added.
“There were so many reasons why I was a virgin. Like it was my faith. Obviously the one that I didn’t tell publicly was my struggle with my sexuality,” he continued.
He recalled telling himself, “’I think I need to try this … or maybe if I have sex with a girl I will become straight.’ He added, “I just was so good at convincing myself that the next step I will become straight. I need to get engaged. I need to get married. I need to lose my virginity. All of these different things were sort of steps to becoming straight.”
Colton is now happily married to Jordan C. Brown, and have a son together named Bishop.
There is a lot of backstory about Colton and his time on The Bachelor and the months after.
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