{"id":67488,"date":"2023-09-20T19:07:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T19:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beststarnews.com\/?p=67488"},"modified":"2023-09-20T19:07:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T19:07:03","slug":"disney-channel-alum-matthew-scott-montgomery-recalls-attending-gay-conversion-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beststarnews.com\/lifestyle\/disney-channel-alum-matthew-scott-montgomery-recalls-attending-gay-conversion-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Channel Alum Matthew Scott Montgomery Recalls Attending Gay Conversion Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"
Matthew Scott Montgomery is speaking out about his experience with gay conversion therapy.<\/p>\n
While appearing on Tuesday’s episode of Christy Carlson Romano’s<\/strong> Vulnerable<\/strong><\/em> podcast, the Disney Channel alum — who starred on the Sonny with a Chance<\/em> spinoff So Random! <\/em>— recalled attending a “reparative therapy” program after he came out to his parents at 18.<\/p>\n Montgomery, 34, detailed how he would attend conversation therapy on his days off from Disney Channel, noting that Disney was “really great” to him and had “nothing to do with” his decision.<\/p>\n “No one knew,” he told Romano, 39. “My castmates did not know at the time … it was a secret.”<\/p>\n The North Carolina native said he came out to his parents in March 2010 while at a restaurant at the popular Los Angeles shopping center at The Grove.<\/p>\n “It was bad,” Montgomery recalled. “My mom, like, collapsed, sobbing when she found out.”<\/p>\n He said his parents left town, before his dad called him the next day, and said they were returning to LA, and wanted him to “introduce” himself to them.<\/p>\n “My parents sat there, and my dad puts down this huge stack of research he’d done, and he was like, ‘Being gay is a choice, and I have set you up with reparative therapy to go there now,'” Montgomery said, noting that “reparative therapy” is “another name” for conversion therapy.<\/p>\n Since he was 18, the actor said he “technically went to conversion therapy at my own free will.”<\/p>\n Unable to render YouTube Video.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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