Luke Evans on how being bullied for being gay as a kid still affects him: “It stays with you”
I was bullied for being gay before I even understood what it meant.
To be treated like that as a child and made to feel there’s something intrinsically wrong with you … it’s so painful, and it stays with you. Even now, if you asked me what I looked like as a child, I would automatically reel off the things I was bullied about: big ears, skinny legs, hair that would never go spiky or lie in curtains like the other boys’. I felt inadequate physically, and that feeling grew with me into adulthood.
You might imagine that becoming famous would have helped, and I do have brief moments when I think: my God, people actually think I’m handsome?! But it’s all so separate from my daily
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