Matt Bomer Reflects On Being Outed By Media & The Unfair Treatment He Faced
Matt Bomer opened up about his sexuality being outed over a decade ago.
The 47-year-old Mid-Century Modern star came out during a speech in early 2012, when he thanked his husband Simon Halls and their three children.
Prior to that, he had been the subject of rumors and unfair treatment by the media, which he talked about during a recent appearance on Jesse Tyler Ferguson‘s podcast Dinner’s On Me.
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“It was that time when folks could kind of take over your own personal narrative before you even had a chance to,” Matt recalled. “I remember outlets talking about my personal life before I had ever had a chance to even do it myself. And it wasn’t because I didn’t want to, I didn’t even have an opportunity to.”
“No media outlet was ever going like, ‘Hey!’” he continued. “I just didn’t have a career that warranted that, and so it felt kind of unfair to me, that that was stolen by people who did have a microphone at the time. It was a weird time.”
Matt reflected how around that time there would be paparazzi pictures of him with his husband and kids, but he didn’t “want them to feel like they were some kind of shameful secret or, something I was sweeping under the rug so I could have a great career.”
He then mentioned the opportunity to come out publicly was perfect, as he was invited to an event to receive a humanitarian award and he thought, “I’m gonna thank my family ’cause that’s what someone would do in this circumstance.”
Matt noted that he didn’t “have anything to fall back on” if coming out were to ruin his career, but he had his family and that was the most important thing.
“What I had was a loving family. That was my safety net,” he said. “And I was like, you know what? If the worst that happens is that I don’t work again and I have this beautiful family who I love and who loves me, then so be it.”
If you missed it, Matt also recently spoke about how he had to re-learn how to do comedy for his new Hulu series Mid-Century Modern after doing so many dramatic roles throughout his career.