I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice

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.

I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.

It's no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don't want that for my life or my children's life certainly. But some might say I could relax a bit more and know that that's not going to happen to me. I'm not going to end up in a car.

I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness

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 believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.