Queer Eye Star Opens Up About Hitting Rock Bottom: Jonathan Van Ness
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I think it's actually still kind of hard for me to talk about. But I am down to go there. Your square chin makes me feel safe. and then Beauty stylist, you know, from clear eye. With our mission honey! The conversation starts on a corn field in rural Illinois. Being a queer feminine child is hard.
There was sexual abuse and there was bullying, but all that trauma came back in the most self-destructive era. Had my face and a plate of Coke, then I discovered sex work, I got HIV, I put myself in so many really dangerous situations. Someone pulled a gun on you. Uh-huh. You start up hairdresser and now your name is on the marquee of Radio City. Schedule's been crazy. How are you feeling? grateful and at the same time really frustrated. I just see so much transphobic garbage all over the place. People really think that there's little kids going to school as a boy and coming home as a girl. This is really serious and so this has been a really hard time. And I think being a public figure who is constantly expected to be a ray up in sunshine, it can be challenging. But why I've been able to get to where I am is like'cause I think I'm resilient. I have been able to sit with a lot of shame and like a lot of heartbreak and still be joyful. Can you talk about your trauma without becoming your trauma. Do I get to ask the question of the next person? Yes, and also they'll t be turned into cards that people will play with their families and stuff.
So it can't be what's the sluttiest thing you've ever done. Jonathan Van Ness's story is an impossible story. Coming from a place of sexual abuse. Sex work. Depression.
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