Olympian Tom Daley says he was
“freaked” initially by his attraction to Oscar winner Dustin
Lance Black.
Daley came out bisexual in a 2013
YouTube video.
“Of course, I still fancy girls,”
he said at the time, but “right now I'm dating a guy.”
“I'd never had feelings for a person
along those lines,” Daley told The
Guardian this week. “I'd been in relationships with girls
where I'd had sexual feelings, but it became so much more intense
when I met Lance. I thought, 'Whoa, this is weird. Why am I having
these feelings for somebody?' It freaked me a little bit initially,
but then it was like, 'OK, this makes sense.' Lots of things started
to make sense.”
“I always knew that I had that
attraction to guys, but I just thought that was a usual thing, being
attracted to guys and girls. It was only when I met Lance I started
having such strong feelings.”
He added that dating someone who “gets
how we have other things in our life that we want to be successful
at” makes it “much easier.”
“I want an Olympic gold medal; he
wants a smash hit in the box office or a really good film,” Daley
said.