Chris Appleton Attempted Suicide Over The Guilt He Felt For Giving His Kids A “Gay Dad”

During an appearance on the Just B podcast, Chris, now 42, explained that he thought he had it “all figured out” when he and his long-term partner, Katie, welcomed two children in their 20s. 

Their kids, Billy and Kitty, are now 22 and 20, respectively. 

“I think coming out later on in life — I was 26 — was incredibly difficult because I had two kids, I had a partner I’d been with for nine years, I thought I had it all figured out — everybody else also thought it was had it figured out,” Chris said at the time. “So when you’re all of a sudden then changing the record, people are like: ‘Well, you must have always known,’ and I didn’t realize I did.”

Chris went on to share that he was “bullied quite a bit at school,” and other children would call him “gay” because he enjoyed hairdressing, adding: “I was, I guess, just determined to prove everyone wrong, but so much that I did myself a disjustice.”