Wayne Brady Shares Life Update After Coming Out as Pansexual
Wayne Brady attends the 2022 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 20, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.
Wayne Brady is feeling completely free to be himself after recently coming out as pansexual.
The Let's Make a Deal host, 51, announced back in August that he identifies as pansexual, and now he's opening up about the way his newly-discovered sexuality has changed his outlook on life—and more specifically, his dating life.
"It would be hard for me to truly put myself 100 percent into a relationship when there's this nagging doubt that I have not explored that piece of me, or even given voice to having that option," Brady told Entertainment Tonight in a new interview. "It doesn't mean that it's ever going to manifest itself in a relationship with a man, or a relationship with this person. I don't know, but at least being able to voice that, so that, if I go into a relationship, whomever I'm in a relationship with knows me 100 percent."
He went on to say that his new self-discovery is the "piece that was missing, that I couldn't verbalize, 'cause I couldn't lock on to it."
"Now I feel differently about that," he continued, while asserting, "I'm not hiding anything now, so now I can approach you in a way that I never have."
While expanding more on what identifying as pansexual means, Brady said he's simply "able to love whomever I want no matter the vessel."
"At the end of the day for me that just means that I am free to voice the option," he said, while clarifying, "Here's the thing: it may never happen... I'm not saying that I am going to be in a relationship with another man. I'm saying it is very possible for me to be attracted to the man because of the person. I can be attracted to this beautiful woman because of the person."
"But then again," he added, "that may be a non-binary person that might go, 'Oh, I'm attracted to you. I'm attracted to this trans person.' The best part is, now that I've said this out loud, I don't have to worry." The actor and comedian continued, "I could show up at a red carpet. I could be at Denny's for all you know, I'm not ducking anybody... because it is what it is, and I'm free to do that."
But despite his new realizations, Brady said he is still not ready to date anyone, telling the outlet, "The best thing that I could do for myself right now and to do for someone else is to not be in a relationship, is to just breathe."
"I just want to work right now," he asserted. "I want to continue to go to therapy, so that when I am ready to either pursue or be pursued, whomever that may be, my aim is to be my best self."
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