Calum Scott says he was ‘abandoned’ by friends after coming out as gay

Calum Scott (Image: Olaf Kosinsky/Wikipedia Commons)

Britain’s Got Talent star Calum Scott has spoken out about the negative experience of coming out as a young teen.

In a recent episode of the We Need To Talk podcast, Scott tells host Paul C. Brunson that he lost all of his school friends after coming out to another boy aged 14. “I had a lot of internalised homophobia because I was abandoned by my friends when I came out as being gay,” he told Brunson.

“We were just talking and it would come up again and I was just so down and fed up of the questioning, when he asked me I was like, ‘I don’t know if I’m interested in girls’ and he was like ‘What? Are you trying to tell

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