“I am a gay man with an extremely open heart. God, I’ve never had to talk about this, so I’m trying to find the words. If I had to label myself, I would label myself as a gay man,” the Empire actor, 31, told OUT’s Shana Naomi Krochmal.
“With that said, I believe that love is the only thing that matters, and I would hope that anybody would leave themselves open — not to gender, but to love. I would hope that people would not close themselves off from what could be if, lo and behold, you meet somebody that just sweeps you off your feet, and you just can’t do anything about it,” he continued. “If we truly believe that we are born this way, then why do we try to stifle the way we were born? If I fall in love down the road with a woman, I’m going to love that woman.”
“I was ready to talk about it,” Smollett told OUT. “[Ellen] told me, ‘You don’t have to.’ I will be forever grateful to Ellen for the kindness she showed me. And that made me want to talk about it.”
Smollett’s TV mom, Taraji P. Henson, has been just as supportive about his coming out process. “She said, 'Who gives a f–k? I don’t tell these motherf–kers that I’m straight. Why the f–k do you have to tell them that you’re gay?’” he recalled to OUT. “That was so O.G., and it just made me love her even more."
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