“[I] started getting very ill, and it kept getting worse,” he says.
“I thought it was, like, food poisoning or whatever.
(before you ask, no it’s not covid.

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),” Bassett said.
i’d like to say thank you!!!!
for all the support on the song!!!
i’ve been doing what i can today to stay involved.
had my first surgery tonight !
gonna rest at the hospital and the doctors will see what they see in the morn!"
people have shamed me for things they know nothing about.
I want to say thank you to those of you who stand for love and acceptance."
My sisters would put me in a Snow White dress and have me run around my house."
He adds he was also “a very emotional kid” who “was constantly yelled at for crying.
He had made that comment in the interview months ago without even thinking about it.
“I stood behind every word that I said,” he says.
“I didn’t connect the dots why until recently … the reason that made me so emotional.
It makes me emotional.
I didn’t necessarily have that when I was younger.
I didn’t have amesaying stuff like this.
I’m very at peace.
I’m celebrating Pride all month long.”