Former "Prison Break" hunk Wentworth Miller -- who came out publicly last month after "choosing to lie" when he began his career in Hollywood -- revealed details over the weekend of his struggle with his sexuality. The Daily News reports:
Speaking at the Human's Right Campaign Dinner in Seattle on Saturday, Miller, 41, confessed that he tried to commit suicide "more than once," as he struggled to understand his sexuality. The actor admits the first time he tried to kill himself was at 15 years old, speaking to an audience in a video obtained by TMZ. "I waited until my family went away for the weekend and I was alone in the house and I swallowed a bottle of pills," he said. "I don't remember what happened over the next couple of days but I'm pretty sure come Monday morning I was on the bus back to school pretending everything was fine." "Growing up I was a target. Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the right way. Every day was a test and there was a thousand ways to fail." The actor says he was 15 the first time, when he "swallowed a bottle of pills."
The actor said he "chose to lie" when he began a career in Hollywood. "When I thought about the possibility of coming out, how that might impact me and the career I worked so hard for, I was filled with fear." Eventually, Miller broke his silence with the letter declining an invitation to the Russian festival, openly slamming the country's rule banning "homosexual propaganda."
Sad, but not atypical. Things have improved, but the suicides continue all too often. Here's hoping I live to this become the exception not the rule. Watch HERE.
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