Rylan Clark 'ran from mum' and thought 'I'm going to perish' after huge decision
Rylan Clark admitted he 'ran' from his mum and thought he was 'going to perish' in a field after making a huge life decision.
On his How To Be in Love podcast, the 36-year-old explained he never thought he would tell his mum Linda that he is gay. He admits it 'wasn't something on his radar' as a young teenager.
And while Rylan's friends all knew, the star felt too nervous to address the conversation with his mother. Although one day, aged 15, Rylan says he knew it was the day that he was going to broach the conversation with Linda.
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He said: 'My friends knew, I'd be going out, I was 15, still at school, I was around one of my friend's houses, and my friend's mum knew, I'd sort of let her know in ways, and whatever, and my mum came to pick me up from her house, I got in the car with my mum, very normal, like I normally would, and the second I shut the door, it was like my heart went just like that, and it come over me and I was hot.
'I knew from nowhere, it was like a baseball around the head, I'm going to tell her I'm gay. It was a half-hour drive from my friend's house to where I was living with my mum and I didn't speak the whole way.
'I could feel it coming, we pulled up on the drive, she went, 'Are you getting out?' I went, 'mum', she went, 'What?' I went [stutters], and she went, 'F****** hell' and just shut the door.'
Rylan says he then phoned his friend and asked if her mum would tell Linda that he was gay. He however wanted to stay on the phone to his friend to listen to the conversation.
Rylan said he overheard his friend's mum saying 'no Linda, no,' which prompted him to 'run'. He explained: 'In that moment I dropped the phone because I've just heard my friend's mum go, 'No Linda no'.
'I've got out the car, it was p***** it down and I'm running. I ended up in this field that I'd never been to, in the p****** down rain, sitting there like [crying], 'I'm homeless'. After three hours, genuinely, I thought I've got to go home, I'm literally going to perish. I'm that cold.'
Rylan said he returned home and discovered his mum found his phone. He immediately rang his friend again to speak to her.
It was then he discovered what prompted his friend's mum to shout 'No Linda'. Rylan explained: 'My mum went, 'Don't tell me he's got a girl pregnant'. So my friend's mum went, 'No Linda, no he's gay' and my mum went, 'Oh alright'.'
Rylan says his mum then asked if he wanted to discuss the conversation she'd had with his friend's mum. Only for Rylan to simply reply, 'no', to which she replied 'okay then'.
Rylan and Linda are currently appearing on Celebrity Gogglebox together. The show airs from 9pm on Channel 4 tonight (June 27).
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