Ricky Martin reflects on his decision to come out publicly as gay

Ricky Martin said his father, a psychologist, was one of the people who encouraged him to come out publicly as gay. “He said, ‘What are you going to teach your kids, to lie? You got to be open,’” Martin, a father of four, told Andy Cohen on SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live” while promoting his new Apple TV+ series, “Palm Royale.” “I want to help you. How can we do this?” Martin recalled his father saying. “And I’m like, ‘All right, dad, I’m working on it. Give me a second. I don’t know how.

Your friends know, your family know. Why do you need to stand in front of the camera and talk about it?’” Martin recalled his representatives, whom he did not name, advising him. “They didn’t understand the importance of it. Now I see it.

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