Posted on 05/20/2010 6:35:36 AM PDT by throwback
By her own admission, Chely Wright was a liar.
"It was a matter of life or death for me emotionally, spiritually, physically," she says. "It became time for me."
Country sensation Chely Wright discusses her decision to come out as a gay woman
More PhotosShe was a country music singer, with a Nashville pedigree and No. 1 hits, and a liar -- until today.
"My truth is I'm gay," she says. "My truth is that I hid my homosexuality for my entire career."
From the time she was a young Kansan trying to sing her way to stardom, Wright, 39, didn't think country music could handle her secret.
"I lied every day, I lied to myself for a long time and then when I stopped lying to myself, I still did a lot of lying to my fans and there are a lot of lies to my family and to my friends," she says.
"Country music is not cool with an openly gay country music artist," she says. "I read liner notes as if they were bedtime stories; nowhere in there did I read anything about a homosexual."
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Good points.
Do these arrogant, self-absorbed people actually think anybody CARES???
If I tried that tact with my wife I’d be hit upside the head with a frying pan.
Oh, you’re terrible - LOLOL
Apparently I suffer from the same disorder. Where do I find a support group???
I was just being matter of fact and pointing out that she loves Bush.
Now, the former Vice-President? Not so much. She hates Dick.
That is just wrong on so many levels - LOL.
I know! LOL
OMG! I never would have believed it of you! ;)
I dont care what she is, she has a good voice. And she made a song called “ On the bumper of my SUV” about some lefty woman who flipper her off because she had a USMC sticker on her car.
That alone earns her some credit in my book.
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