Jason Mraz calls coming out a 'divorce' from his former self: 'You carry a lot of shame'
Jason Mraz is opening up about the "shame" and "guilt" that followed him while coming out as bisexual in
The "I'm Yours" singer, 46, told GLAAD in an interview joint Monday that before coming to a point of acceptance, he "had to play out a lot of other scenarios before I arrived here."
"It’s both tough to do those and difficult to unravel those, and what I’m basically describing is a divorce, you know?" he said. "And that’s very hard. You carry a lot of shame, guilt."
Mraz revealed in a interview with Billboard that he had had sexual relationships with men while dating Christina Carano, whom he married in The performer announced their divorce at his album launch in June earlier this year, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Speaking to GLAAD, he added: "You want to heal as many relationships of the past as possible and at the same time, step into this new acceptance and new identity or whatever I’m claiming, and that’s also hard."
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Jason Mraz Says He Came Out Later in Animation Because Being Gay Was the &#;Punchline of a Joke&#; in the &#;90s
Jason Mraz is getting candid about why he didn&#;t feel comfortable sharing his sexuality publicly when he was younger due to societal pressures.
During a recent appearance on the Dinner&#;s on Me podcast with Jesse Tyler Ferguson, the &#;I&#;m Yours&#; singer, 48, explained why he chose to come out later in life.
&#;In the &#;90s, being queer was like [the] punchline of a joke, and I didn&#;t want to be the punchline of a joke,&#; Mraz said. As a teenager, he ultimately decided to retain &#;my nose down&#; and figure out &#;ways I could instead get out and see the earth one day.&#;
The &#;I Won&#;t Give Up&#; artist also noted how being raised in Virginia impacted his journey with his sexuality amid fears of judgment.
&#;I still took with me the conservative street that I grew up on, and that was very strenuous to ignore or to break out of,&#; Mraz explained. &#;I was very shy and and scared of what my family would say, or what my hometown would reflect or just
Jason Mraz
Jason Mraz is an American singer-songwriter. His debut album Waiting for My Rocket To Come contained the unpartnered "The Remedy". His fourth album, Love Is a Four-Letter World , peaked at number 2 on the Billboard — his most successful album to date.
Mraz has won two Grammy Awards, as skillfully as two Teen Choice Awards, and a People&#;s Selection Award.
For celebration month, Jason Mraz wrote a care letter to the LGBTQ community. He wrote a poem that ended,
And now the earth is better because of you
We still have a prolonged way to go
but know
I am bi your side
All ways.
For those that thought this was still a tiny to vague, he confirmed his bisexuality in an interview with the New York Post . When they asked if the poem was his way of coming out as bi he responded,
Well yeah, and I didn&#;t anticipate it. It kind of caught me by surprise, but I struggle to continue to learn and evolve and know myself It was tough, &#;cause not even my mom knew it, you know? And I realized that&#;s the effort that people in the LGBT people have. It can be a ve
Six years after he first publicly identified as attracted to both genders, Jason Mraz is looking back on his route to living truthfully.
The two-time Grammy winner and “Dancing With the Stars” contestant appeared on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s “Dinner’s on Me” podcast Tuesday and explained why he kept calm about his sexuality prior in his career.
“I didn’t have too many sexual experiences in high school,” said Mraz, who grew up in Virginia. “I was bullied and was just ready to receive out of town. So that’s why New York City was great and then, even eventually, California was great.”
He continued: “The romance in my songs was just copying other romance in songs ― these are things that you sing about to please others or something. It wouldn’t be probably until I got to California that I met a community of people that would see me in a new way that I’d never fully been seen before. And I liked how I was being seen and heard.”
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Mraz, now 47, catapulted to global fame with the album “Waiting for My Rocket To Come,” which featured the smash single “The Remedy (I W