By Ashley Young-
Itv’s Phillip Schofield’s has admitted being in the closet for decades as he admitted being gay on instagram .
The This Morning host Phillip admitted feeling ‘confusion’ and’ pain’ as he announced his sexuality after being married to Stephanie Lowe for 27 years . The 57-year-old television star who has two daughters, Molly and Ruby, told a television audience that he had several heartbreaking conversations with his family who gave him their “strength and support”.
He did not say how long his wife was made aware of his true sexuality, or exactly how she has been coping with it. He did day that he had been smothered with kindness and love. He said: “My family have held me so close they have tried to cheer me up, to smother me with kindness and love, despite their own confusion.”
In an interview by co-host Holly Willoughby on Friday’s edition of This Morning, he said:
“You know this has been bothering me for a very long time,” he said. “Everybody does this at their own speed when the time is right.” He said in recent times his sexuality has “become an issue in my head”.
“All you can be in your life is honest with yourself and I was getting to the point where I knew I wasn’t honest with myself. I was getting to the point where I didn’t like myself very much because I wasn’t being honest with myself.”
“[Coming out] is my decision. This is absolutely my decision. It was something I knew that I had to do. I don’t know what the world will be like now. I don’t know how this will be taken or what people will think.”
“You never know what’s going on in someone’s seemingly perfect life, what issues they are struggling with, or the state of their well being – and so you won’t know what has been consuming me for the last few years. With the strength and support of my wife and my daughters, I have been coming to terms with the fact that I am gay.
“This is something that has caused many heart-breaking conversations at home. I have been married to Steph for nearly 27 years, and we have two beautiful grown-up daughters, Molly and Ruby.
My family have held me so close – they have tried to cheer me up, to smother me with kindness and love, despite their own confusion. Yet still I can’t sleep and there have been some very dark moments.
“My inner conflict contrasts with an outside world that has changed so very much for the better. Today, quite rightly, being gay is a reason to celebrate and be proud. Yes, I am feeling pain and confusion, but that comes only from the hurt that I am causing to my family.