Ricky Martin ended years of speculation and admitted his truth: Martin is gay.
Martin made the announcement directly to his fans via his website, eschewing the traditional People outing.
The former Menudo member and ’90s pop sensation wrote:
“…Many people told me: Ricky it’s not important. It’s not worth it, all the years you’ve worked and everything you’ve built will collapse, many people in the world are not ready to accept your truth, your reality, your nature. Because all this advice came from people who I love dearly, I decided to move on with my life not sharing with the world my entire truth. Allowing myself to be seduced by fear and insecurity became a self-fulfilling prophecy of sabotage. Today I take full responsibility for my decisions and my actions.
…This is just what I need especially now that I am the father of two beautiful boys that are so full of light and who with their outlook teach me new things every day. To keep living as I did up until today would be to indirectly diminish the glow that my kids where born with. Enough is enough. This has to change. This was not supposed to happen five or 10 years ago, it is supposed to happen now. Today is my day, this is my time, and this is my moment.
These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn’t even know existed.
What will happen from now on? It doesn’t matter. I can only focus on what’s happening to me in this moment. The word “happiness” takes on a new meaning for me as of today. It has been a very intense process. Every word that I write in this letter is born out of love, acceptance, detachment and real contentment. Writing this is a solid step towards my inner peace and vital part of my evolution. I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.”
And for those of you who didn’t figure this out a decade ago, all that can be said is,”Duh!”
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