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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Sat Jun 5, 2021, 12:30 PM Jun 2021

Ricky Martin is still traumatized from the time Barbara Walters tried to out him in 2000

Ricky Martin said that he’s still traumatized by the time Barbara Walters asked him about his sexuality when he was still deep in the closet. “When she dropped the question, I felt violated because I was just not ready to come out. I was very afraid,” Martin told People, referring to a 2000 interview with Walters. “There’s a little PTSD with that.”

In that interview, Walters asked Martin about “rumors that talk about your sexual orientation.” “Do they hurt? How do you handle them?” she asked in the interview as Martin’s pop career in the U.S. was taking off. Homosexuality was still illegal in parts of the U.S. – including in Puerto Rico – and no state had legalized marriage equality yet. “Sexuality and homosexuality should not be a problem for anybody,” Martin answered vaguely at the time.

But Walters wasn’t satisfied. “You know, you could stop these rumors,” she said. “You could say, as many of us have, ‘Yes I am gay,’ or you could say, ‘No I’m not,’ or you could leave it as you are ambiguous. I don’t want to put you on the spot,” Walters said, putting him on the spot.
She then said that she is asking about it for him, because it’s something that people were talking about.

Martin would come out 10 years later in a post on his official website and today he’s married to Jwan Yosef and they have four children together.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/06/ricky-martin-still-traumatized-time-barbara-walters-tried-2000/

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Ricky Martin is still traumatized from the time Barbara Walters tried to out him in 2000 (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Jun 2021 OP
Another reason why I have never liked Walters Grins Jun 2021 #1
Someone should of asked Barbara about her sexual orientation. DURHAM D Jun 2021 #2
Should have ;) Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2021 #3
She also had an affair with Sen. Edward Brookes, a Black man... brush Jun 2021 #4
Also, she served for years as Roy Cohn's beard . nt DURHAM D Jun 2021 #5
Right. She got around. brush Jun 2021 #6
Also a Republican. marble falls Jun 2021 #7

Grins

(7,967 posts)
1. Another reason why I have never liked Walters
Sat Jun 5, 2021, 12:34 PM
Jun 2021

Completely irrelevant line of questions and she wouldn’t back down.

DURHAM D

(32,854 posts)
2. Someone should of asked Barbara about her sexual orientation.
Sat Jun 5, 2021, 12:37 PM
Jun 2021

I know she has had a relationship with a woman.

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
3. Should have ;)
Sat Jun 5, 2021, 12:42 PM
Jun 2021

"You could say, as many of us have"

Did Baba Wawa come out as gay at some point and I forgot about it?

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