![]() “I would wake up every single day putting up this facade, acting like somebody I wasn’t. The biggest thing I want you all to realise is, you know, once you aren’t afraid to actually be yourself, that’s when you actually get to experience real happiness. “And, I don’t know what it was, but one day I woke up and I finally realized why I wasn’t so happy. “It was essentially just me and a good friend just living together. “I say ‘relationship’ fairly loosely, now that I look back on what it was,” Kearney said. Gay strongman Rob Kearney lived a ‘heterosexual’ life before coming out at 22.Įlsewhere in the speech, Kearney said he had lived a typical heterosexual life for many years before coming out as gay – and even lived with his former girlfriend. “For me, it’s when I got to experience real love, once I was finally able to break down all those walls and accept me for who I actually was, it completely changed my life and let me be able to talk to students like you about the things that I’ve done in this world.” “The biggest thing I want you all to realise is, you know, once you aren’t afraid to actually be yourself, that’s when you actually get to experience real happiness,” Kearney said, the Daily Hampshire Gazette reports. ![]() Speaking to students at Frontier Regional School in Massachusetts on November 22, Kearney discussed the challenges associated with coming out in sport – but said it was all worth it. ![]()
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