Playboy Club actor, Sean Maher, has publicly come out as a gay man. In an exclusive interview with Entertainment Weekly (EW) he opened up about his sexuality.
He told EW, “I was nervous coming here today because I’ve just never talked about it. But, it’s so liberating. It was interesting to be coming to have a conversation that I was always afraid to have.” He then added, “This is my coming out ball. I’ve been dying to do this.”
“I’ve never discussed it publicly,” the 36-year-old continued. “I’ve never been asked about it publicly, but I would be lying if I said I didn’t paint a different picture.” Maher says that not coming out wasn’t so much a choice as much as it was a reality of the business when he first came to L.A. fresh out of college back in 1997. Publicists working with him during his first role as the title character on Fox’s short-lived cop drama Ryan Caulfield: Year One assumed he was straight – and he didn’t tell them otherwise, out of fear.
