Most of my escapades were getting my Labrador dog into the back of my car to drive to Brooklyn where I worked at Avenue M Studios shooting a soap opera and battling being a 17 to 18-year-old playing twins being afraid that I was going to get fired, because who wouldn't fire me? I had no idea what I was doing.

To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.

I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.

Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.

Some people like to hear and not see, so we have the radio. There are so many different ways that we can get and participate in the arts.

And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.

I do know something. Just not with any certainty.