Posted on 09/14/2020 9:33:42 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Andrew Gillum and his wife addressed the controversy that has surrounded the former gubernatorial candidate since he was found unresponsive in a hotel room and entered rehab on the season 2 premiere of The Tamron Hall Show.
“I cried every day,” Gillum told Tamron Hall.
Gillum and his wife, R. Jai Gillum, sat down with Hall for her eponymous talk show for the episode that aired on Monday, Sept. 14. A press release touted that he would “discuss his swift fall from grace, his rehabilitation experience in the face of adversity, and share what life looks like now.”
Gillum told Hall that it’s been an emotional time for him. The full interview continues with Gillum sharing his previously undisclosed sexual identity.
“I don’t identify as gay. I identify as bisexual. I’ve never shared that publicly before,” said the former Tallahassee, Fla. mayor.
Although the public was not aware of his bisexuality, his wife was fully informed before the couple’s marriage.
“I just believe that love and sexuality exists on a spectrum. All I care about is what’s between us and what agreement we make,” adds Mrs. Gillum.
The exclusive sit-down interview comes six months since Gillum was found unresponsive in a Florida hotel room. As theGrio previously reported, the former mayor of Tallahassee was once seen as a rising star in the Democratic party after launching a gubernatorial bid in November 2018 but lost to Ron DeSantis by half a percentage point.
A little over a year later, Gillum was found half-dressed, drunk, and passed out in a Miami Beach hotel room with an acquaintance, Travis Dyson. Dyson had previously advertised his services as a gay male escort, according to Politico, and he suffered an apparent crystal meth overdose.
Shortly after the incident in March, Gillum entered rehab for depression and alcohol in what he deemed to be a “wake up call.” He offered a “personal update” on his life in July with an Instagram post.
Gillum shared that he lost part of himself after losing his gubernational race and turned to drinking as a coping mechanism. He chose to pretend he was “living my best life” but after more than 16 years as a public servant, he started doubting his self -worth.
“All of that was all of a sudden gone, and caused me to think about my own purpose, and my own value and what I could contribute if anything,” he said. “I didn’t want to face any of those things so I numbed. I tried to suppress. I tried to ignore.”
Gillum credited his wife for standing by his side and that she “knows what I am and knows what I am not and she chooses to love me anyhow.”
Isn’t he married to a female?
“he started doubting his self-worth”
And he was right to doubt.
Whatever
I think I understand the “agreement” that Gilliam has with his wife.
I don’t care. He must still have political plans for himself.
Maybe that’s why he thinks there is a need to ‘explain’.
It’s a bonus if you’re a demoncrap
Forget it Andrew. You’re toast politically. That story might get you some support from the LGBT community, but you’re going to find out how homophobic Black Democrats truly are!
As Rodney Dangerfield so brilliantly said, “I’m a bisexual. I have to buy sex.”
Carrie: I’m not even sure bisexuality exists; I think it’s just a layover on the way to Gaytown.
Sorry, any crossed swords and you’re a homo forever. And there ain’t nothing nobody can do about it. Sleeping with a chick too doesn’t take away that reality.
Lol
He is not gay. He is a homosexual. Gay means happy. A homosexual takes it up the stove pipe and blows the meat flute. A badge of honor among Democrats.
In his mind, there’s still a political career and a chance to participate (maybe in Joe Biden’s cabinet, as a fantasy).
The problem with this guy, when you stand back and observe, he’s admitting he is a sex-addict and would do anything, under any condition, with the right drugs/booze in his system. You can probably go back to his late teens, and find the same behavior.
He needs to get a job filling sandbags and keep his mind off weird stuff.
Me and my friend, when we were in our mid-20s, watched two of our friends that were girls make out like crazy on a dare.
They were both engaged. They went on to get married and have kids and have happy lives.
This guy is quite a bit past the experimental age so I think he is gay. but I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s teens out there in this crazy century that thought they had to experiment and found out that chicks are much better.
As for my friends. They enjoyed the heck out of it.
They told me and my friend if we kissed they would do whatever we wanted.
We did not kiss. But wow that would have been some night.
I’m not a very morally upstanding story and something I wouldn’t partake in today.
We are here: “If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live? (Old Tappan NJ: Fleming H Revell Company, 1976), p. 224.
One simple way to tell if a guy is homosexually eroticized:
Does he **** D? Yes, he’s a homoeroticist.
No, he’s normal.
Pretty simple and accurate test in my little world.
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