""When I told the kids, I just felt like all that bullying, all that fear and all of that, I guess, abuse I went through as a kid, I was putting on to them," Appleton told Attwood. "As a parent, all you want to do is protect your kids. If someone hits your kids in the playground, you want to go find the f***** and kill them. You just say, 'Who was it?' You have that protective instinct to protect them from harm.""
""If you're the one causing the harm, I just felt like a disease. I felt like I had cancer. I felt like it was this plague. I felt like I was infecting people with suffering from something I couldn't seem to control.""
""Telling the kids was awful," he said. "That night, I just honestly felt like it would be better for them to have a dad that was dead than a dad that was gay. It was a horrible experience.""
Chris Appleton is a 42-year-old British celebrity hairstylist with two children, Billy and Kitty-Blu, and a whirlwind marriage to actor Lukas Gage. He was with his children's mother for ten years before realizing he was gay. He experienced a profound internal battle upon recognizing his sexuality and feared his coming out would expose his children to the bullying and abuse he endured as a child. He described feeling like a disease, cancer or plague and at one point believed his children would be better off without him. He first noticed same-sex attraction after a man attempted to kiss him during a trip for a hair show and later accepted that he could not return to his previous life.
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