CBSNewsIn an upcoming interview with CBS This Morning, Lil Nas X admits that when he was younger he prayed that being gay was just a “phase.”
The 20-year-old rapper tells Gayle King he knew he was gay from when he was a little boy, but people around him were telling him it’s not a good thing.
“Yeah, definitely. I knew,” he says. “Especially around my teenage years. You know, I would just pray, pray, and pray…that it was, like, a phase.”
He says he hoped that “it would go away.” But once he found fame with his hit “Old
