“He’d pulled up the history of recent Google searches, which included gay porn sites and a variety of questions: Am I gay? How do you know if you’re gay? Why don’t I like having sex with my girlfriend?” thealum wrote at the time. “At first, I denied responsibility. Then I owned up to having been curious. He asked if I wanted to talk about it. I said no, explaining that I’d figured things out on my own. I begged him not to tell Mom. I’m sure he did.
On Wednesday, the Bachelor Nation member said that he wished he “had more faith in his … family members,” noting that his dad was supportive when he recently came out to him.“His reaction was sort of … ‘I wish you would have trusted me sooner,’” the former tight end told Roberts, 60. “He followed it up with, ‘How can I help you? How can I take this off of your plate? Who can I tell?’ To me, that was more meaningful than ‘I love you.