Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell 'my' sex change story but I've never appeared on his show for any reason... not even as a member of the studio audience.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?'
I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.
It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?
One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.
If you look at my life before I went into television, the struggle I went through coming out would be surprising to most people, given how comfortable and how out I am being the only late-night gay talk-show host.
Because of my grey hair and glasses, people think I'm Phil Donahue.
I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.
I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.
I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.