Oprah Asks KONY 2012's Jason Russell if He's Gay - He does not answer.
Following the revelation that his group Invisible Children was financially tied to anti-gay Christian fundamentalist groups, KONY 2012 co-founder Jason Russell's personal life came under scrutiny, a scrutinization that was magnified after an apparent mental breakdown, in which he marched back and forth in a nude rant at a California intersection.
Yesterday, Russell appeared on Oprah's Next Chapter to talk about his breakdown. Oprah asked him if he's gay:
“Yeah, I’ve heard those rumors...In the video I was snapping my finger up and down. I grew up in theater. My parents started a large children’s theater organization, so I am animated. I am theatrical. That's me by nature. So when you take me, times it by ten, I don't know what was in my head but it was controlling my body and making me do really strange things."
Russell says he hardly remembers anything about the episode on the sidewalk: "I think I was trying to ask cars to take me to the airport, in my underwear."
Russell says it took him two weeks to come back to himself.
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Gay or Nay ONTD?
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he has good intentions and what not, but he seems sooo fucking confused
I don't recall Oprah sitting down with Ellen.
I hope he got the help he needed.
If he's deceiving his family and himself; and that's a bridge they (not us) may need to cross. I'm not comfortable with asking for a yay or nay on someone's sexuality.
I also found Oprah's "so you were naked on the street and people said it was because you were gay." to be exceptionally tacky.
I think we've all known gay people who have been married and had children and done that whole thing, so that's a big old "snore" for me. But going bonkers and getting naked and slapping the pavement like a gorilla?! THAT's the interesting part!
ot me and my friend - two straight women - got a menage proposition from two gays this weekend. they made no sense.
he is so gay though boy why you lying?
I'd bet that a lot of the stress came from wondering if people were going to find out since he was in the spotlight, so to speak. I watched about 2 minutes of the Kony vid, and he just seemed like he was trying too hard in the beginning, if that makes any sense.