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NBC News
07-08-2025
- Entertainment
- NBC News
Chris Appleton reflects on coming out to his kids: 'I was feeling shame for them'
Celebrity hairstylist Chris Appleton shared how he told his children and former partner that he was gay, and how he felt like he could 'finally exhale' after he came out. Appleton opened up about his nearly two-decade coming out journey on the Aug. 6 episode of 'On Purpose with Jay Shetty. ' Appleton explained that by the time he was 26, and after being in therapy and moving to Los Angeles, he couldn't keep his secret inside any longer — but he was still nervous about telling his kids. 'My biggest focus in life is being a great dad to two kids, and any parent out there can connect to that. I will always put them before myself,' he said. 'The difficulty with shame is it's very difficult to heal when I wasn't just feeling my shame. I was feeling shame for them.' Appleton, now 42, explained he first told his former partner of nine years, Kate Katon. 'That was a process, and I also had to respect that she needed to go through her own grief,' he said. 'I loved her, I really loved her,' he added. 'And I didn't want to be gay, I didn't want to be different.' After he told Katon, Appleton said he told his family, and then came what he called the 'hardest part': telling his two children, Billy and Kitty-blu. 'My job as a dad, I felt, was to protect my kids. Going through what I went through as a kid, being bullied was horrible,' Appleton said. 'My childhood was a lot of memories are not great ones, so the idea of bringing that to my kids was really painful to feel that they would get bullied because their dad was gay. 'I know the things that kids say, and I know how mean they can be, and I just didn't want them to ever have that shame that was put on me, onto them,' he added of his kids. Appleton said that when he sat down with his former partner to tell his two children, he couldn't say the words. 'I think maybe a lot of people can relate to this. Initially, saying the words 'I'm gay' is a challenge, because once those words are out, it's done,' he said. 'I actually didn't say it. Kate's mom actually said it. 'And then I just saw these two beautiful kids who were, like, 6 and 8, and they were just they were upset, because they knew I was upset, and they were confused,' he continued. 'And all of a sudden, I just felt like I'd just messed their life up, and I felt like I'd failed as a dad, because my job was to protect them, and if anyone ever hurt them, I would protect them. I was the one hurting them, and I couldn't understand that. I also just couldn't hide I was gay anymore.' After he told his kids, Appleton said he 'just shut down' and left to go on a drive. He said he thought, 'It would be better for them to have a dad that was dead than a dad that was gay.' Appleton said he had painkillers and a bottle of alcohol and checked into a hotel room. He explained he called his former partner and 'apologized for the pain' he had caused and later woke up in a hospital room. 'Something changed then, and it was really powerful, because I realized I couldn't hate myself any more than I had, and I couldn't try and stop being gay anymore,' Appleton said. 'I just remember thinking, 'What about if I just surrender?'' he added. ''What about if I'm just gay and I just be that?' I don't really know where to begin with it, and I don't know where it's going to lead me, but it has to be better than what I've been doing.' In that moment, Appleton said he 'decided to live.' 'I think that's the moment where I went back to that 8-year-old boy standing in the window and allowed himself to be seen. That was the beginning of it all, really,' he said. 'So although it was one of the darkest nights of my life, I think it was a turning point.' 'I hope other people in watching this can maybe feel heard or seen and find the help they need,' he said. 'Even maybe it's a parent that is struggling understanding their child, to understand how dark it can be when you're left in silence and when you don't get to express who you truly are.' Appleton said he is in 'a good place' now and added he will share more about his life in his upcoming book, 'Your Roots Don't Define You,' publishing in 2026. He appeared on TODAY Aug. 7 and said the book is 'about finding your true self' and hopes it helps people who are 'silently struggling,' like he once was. 'I hope people, from this book, look in the mirror and actually finally see themselves,' he said, 'and see the version of themselves they can be.'
Black America Web
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Black America Web
Tiffany Haddish Admits To Dating For Free Meals When She Was Broke, Social Media Cooks Her
Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE Source: River Callaway / Getty One of the most exhausting topics spotted on social media is dating, whether it be about keeping your crushes in your tax bracket, splitting bills 50-50, or tricking at restaurants. (Paul Pierce even hopped in on the debate, saying that marriage is for 'poor' people and only benefits women, while explaining his mother getting married at 70, but that's another topic.) Men have accused women of only going on dates for free meals, and now one star has admitted to doing that when she was down bad financially. During a recent Instagram Live session, frequent oversharer and actress Tiffany Haddish talked about her come-up and felt terrible when she went on dates for freebies. 'Do you know how horrible it is to go on a date with a guy because you need a meal?' she asked . 'I don't even want to be nice to this person or get to know him. I'm hungry.' Looking back on her actions, Haddish didn't enjoy the wining and dining b ecause she 'cares too much about other people.' While the struggle is no longer that real for the actress and comedian, she understands that it is for so many, and inflation will only make it worse. 'In this past election, we were told the price of food would come down, but it seems like it's just going up,' she said. 'We're about to learn how amazing the human body can be when you don't eat.' Haddish gave a peek into her current dating life last year during an episode of the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast, where she explained the dynamics of dating while celibate. 'I just feel like, dang, I am the prize, and these dudes gotta qualify. When I think about my track record of like who I lay down with it, it takes like a year or so for me to even warm up,' she said. See how social media is reacting to her free meal admission below. Tiffany Haddish Admits To Dating For Free Meals When She Was Broke, Social Media Cooks Her was originally published on
Sky News AU
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Michelle Obama brutally roasted for bizarre deportation remarks
Former first lady Michelle Obama has been brutally roasted online for comments she made during a podcast. Accompanied by her brother Craig Robinson, the two discussed deportation on the podcast 'On Purpose with Jay Shetty'. Obama and Robinson discussed their experiences growing up, when Shetty asked about recent tests of fear they've had. Michelle brought up the recent climate of what's happening to immigrants in the United States. 'I do still worry about my daughters in the world, even though they are somewhat recognisable,' she said. 'I worry for people of colour all over this country, and I don't know that we will have the advocates to protect everybody, and that frightens me, it keeps me up at night.'
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Michelle Obama Reveals What Keeps Her 'Up At Night' About Trump's Second Term
Former first lady Michelle Obama has opened up about her fears for the safety of immigrants and people of color due to President Donald Trump's immigration policies in his second term. 'I don't know that we will have the advocates to protect everybody, and that makes me — that frightens me, it keeps me up at night,' said Obama, who appeared with her brother Craig Robinson on Monday's edition of the 'On Purpose with Jay Shetty' podcast. Obama and Robinson, earlier in the podcast, discussed their experiences with racial discrimination. Shetty then asked the former first lady about her 'hardest recent test' of fear she's experienced due to the color of her skin. 'Well, in this current climate, for me, it's what's happening to immigrants,' replied Obama, noting that she no longer has the 'fear' herself because she commutes in a motorcade, although she still worries about her two 'somewhat recognizable' daughters. 'My fears are what I know is happening out there in streets all over the city. And now that we have leadership that is sort of indiscriminately determining who belongs and who doesn't, and we know that those decisions aren't being made with courts and with due process.' She then brought up a story Robinson had shared moments earlier about being stopped as a child in Chicago by a Black police officer who accused him of stealing a bicycle he'd bought. ″[They're making decisions like,] 'You don't look like somebody that belongs,' you know, 'I can determine just by looking at you that you're ... a good person or you're not a good person,'' she said. 'There's so much bias and so much racism and so much ignorance that fuels those kinds of choices, I worry for people of color all over this country.' Obama's remarks arrive less than a week after she took to her 'IMO' podcast with Robinson to reveal why she skipped out on Trump's second inauguration despite the attendance of her husband, former President Barack Obama. 'People couldn't believe that I was saying no for any other reason, they had to assume that my marriage was falling apart,' said the former first lady of her decision, which fueled divorce rumors. 'It took everything in my power to not do the thing that was perceived as right, but do the things that was right for me, that was a hard thing for me to do.' Trump Is Appointing Friends And Allies To A Powerful Position Using A Loophole Jalen Hurts Sidesteps Eagles' Visit With Trump At The White House Donald Trump's Suit For Pope Francis' Funeral Goes Viral
Miami Herald
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Liam Payne's girlfriend Kate Cassidy shares one of the letters he wrote to her
Six months after former One Direction star Liam Payne's death, his girlfriend is speaking out for the first time. While a guest on the 'On Purpose with Jay Shetty' podcast, Kate Cassidy talked about her life with Payne, the last goodbye they shared before his death, and she read one of the many letters he wrote her during their two-year relationship. Payne died on Oct. 16, 2024, while vacationing in Argentina. Cassidy had been with him in Argentina but caught a flight back to the United States a few days earlier where she and Payne had just bought a home. Payne died of multiple trauma from a fall, the BBC reported. He was 31 years old. During her conversation with Shetty, Cassidy shared one of the many letters that Payne had written to her. This particular letter was given to her with a gift. The letter read: 'The reason I picked this watch out for you is because it doesn't have any numbers on it, and my love for you is endless. It literally means eternity. So now every time you look down at your wrist, you can know and remember that my love for you is timeless. We have all the time in the world to learn our love language for each other, and I hope and pray that I get this right for you. With every tick and every tock this watch makes from the second onwards, I love you with all my heart, Kaitlin, and I won't lose you. You're 444.' As Cassidy got emotional reading the letter, she noted, 'It's just so hard to process that we thought we had all this time, and he thought we had all this time, and it was just taken away.' As the 26-year-old continued, she also opened up about their final day together. She explained that she and Payne often shared heartfelt goodbyes with each other regardless of where they were going. 'On our last day, we woke up, we had an amazing breakfast. We were in the countryside. We went horseback riding, and I had a later on evening flight,' Cassidy said of the final day they spent together in Argentina. 'The way me and Liam would say goodbye to each other wasn't just like, 'Oh, I'll see you later.' Majority of the time it was this heartfelt, long goodbye for at least five minutes of just hugging, 'I'm gonna miss you. I love you,'' Cassidy explained. 'On the last day in Argentina, my car was in the driveway, and we went back into the guest house, grabbed my suitcase, and we were sitting on the couch, and I just kept going on and on and on about how much I love him and how much he means to me, and how much I'm going to miss him, and that I can't wait for him to already be back in Florida, because we were starting this new chapter of our life.' In one of the last things Payne said to Cassidy, the singer laughed at the influencer, telling her that she was going to miss her flight. 'He interrupted me, and he just said, 'Kate, like you're gonna miss your flight, your car's in the driveway. You're acting like this is the last time you're ever gonna see me again.'' 'I just laughed back. I was just like, 'I know I'm being silly. I need to get in the car. I can't miss my flight,'' Cassidy recalled. 'Just to even look back in time and just know that really was the last time I was able to see him. It's just so chilling.' Though it haunts Cassidy, she admits that final goodbye also brings her peace. 'I think that the way that we said goodbye to each other, I'm so blessed, and this is where I get that peace from it, that it was that heartfelt, beautiful.'
