Caleb Shomo is speaking ou about coming out.
The 33-year-old Beartooth singer made an appearance on The Breakdown with Nath & Johnny.
During the episode, he spoke out about his decision to publicly come out as gay.
Caleb said that he first began sharing the news to people back in September of last year before making his formal coming out announcement in May. Two months later, he announced his divorce from his wife Fleur Shomo after 14 years of marriage.
“I had already decided, I’m not gonna water myself down at all,” he said of his decision to come out.
“I’m going to just do what I wanna do. I’m gonna wear what I wanna wear. I’m gonna sing how I wanna sing. I’m gonna look how I wanna look and just enjoy being an artist that’s allowed to do that, and that has the freedom to do that,” Caleb went on to say.
Caleb Shomo Opens Up About Facing Homophobia
“That was met with a lot of opposition and a lot of…I mean, really, just a lot of homophobia, and a lot of people who really were not okay with me presenting that way at all, with what I was doing, any of it.”
Caleb Shomo Reveals How He Coped With the Backlash
He combatted the pushback and criticism by “get[ting] off the internet for a while.”
“I mean, a lot of the day I’d be spent in a really, really bad place and just trying to find enough energy and enough will to get myself warmed up and get on that stage and do my f–king job,” he said of being on tour during the fallout.
“And it didn’t really change as we kept releasing more songs, and the very vocal opposition continued and still continues to. Me coming out didn’t help that. And just being honest with people about who I am and what’s been going on.”
Caleb Shomo Is Processing His Experience Through New Music
He also suggested that he’s going to work through the feelings in new music.
“I’m working on a new record. I have a lot that I need to say, and a lot that I need to process and work through and that’s the only way I can do it. I’m just trying to think…baby steps, you know?” Caleb said.
Watch the full interview…
Find out what Caleb Shomo said when he came out, and more about what Fleur said about their marriage ending.
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