“I've never felt more happy and content with my life, and I feel like I wanna share that with people, and what the pandemic really taught me is to live your life because life is short,' he said.
'Well, I was a kid but going back again to show business at 19 to be a TV host, that's when it really hit me that, 'Wow, being gay is really not accepted in a lot of these communities.''īut Raymond said that the pandemic taught him the value of living life to the fullest, and staying to oneself. When he first entered showbiz as a TV personality at the age of 19, he found that being a member of the LGBTQ community was still not widely accepted. So, that was kind of like the burden that I was carrying,” he added. Things that I do will not only affect me, but will also affect my family. “Being part of a family that is in the public space – we’re all entertainers for many generations already – I wasn’t deciding on things just on my own. But he never had to explain his sexuality, so why should I? And that was my thinking growing up,” the actor revealed. Like, what is this? I had my brother who was so similar to me but so different in so many ways. “Growing up, it was hard for me to even acknowledge who I am.
