Bowen Yang Opens Up About Undergoing 'Detrimental' Conversion Therapy as a Teenager
Bowen Yang discusses his experience undergoing conversion therapy as a teenager.
The 34-year-old Saturday Night Live star opened up about how his family reacted to finding about his sexuality when he was a high school student in Colorado.
“I ‘came out’ in a sense that my parents just sort of stumbled upon something, and they were like ‘Oh, we didn’t realize this is what we were dealing with.’ I give them a lot of grace for that because they just had no context for it,” Bowen told Willie Geist in a new interview.
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Bowen said that his parents then told him that if he wanted to attend his college of choice, New York University, then he would have to go to conversion therapy.
“I kind of played along, and I kind of just humored them and myself into seeing what it was,” Bowen said.
However, he described the experience as “very painful and detrimental,” and that “there was a lot of healing that happened after that.”
If you didn’t see, in February, Bowen responded to rumors that he got Shane Gillis fired from SNL.