Ricky Martin told why he hid his orientation for so long and about acquaintance with her husband

The famous 46-year-old singer Ricky Martin recently became a guest of the studio of the publication Attitude, where he was invited to take part in an interesting photo shoot and tell a little about himself. In conversation with the interviewer, rather personal topics were touched upon: acquaintance with the future spouse, recognition in homosexuality and the reasons why Ricky could not tell the public about his sexual orientation for so long.

Ricky Martin on the cover of Attitude

About acquaintance with her future husband Dzhanom Yosef

Those fans who follow the life and work of Martin know that the famous artist is in the relationship with the artist Dzhonom Yosef since April 2016 year. In January 2018, men were married by marriage. His interview with Ricky began with the fact that he told about the acquaintance with the future spouse:

"I was the first to take the initiative and wrote a letter to Dzhvan. He answered me quite quickly, and we got in touch with correspondence. So we talked for about six months, telling each other about our life and the various cases that we experienced. In our correspondence there was nothing sexual and erotic. And then, after a while, I realized that I wanted to see him. We met and I gasped. I was overwhelmed by a very strong feeling, which was born for 6 months. At that moment, I realized that I could not go on without this guy. Then I thought to myself: "On Jvan I will marry!". Judging by what happened to us further, he thought the same way. "
Ricky Martin with Jwan Yosef

Martin did not talk for a long time about his sexual orientation

After that, Ricky decided to tell a little about why, over the years, he did not open to the public that he likes men:

"At the very beginning of my career, I had very difficult times. I worked all the time and open myself to new relationships, and now I do not mean only love, I was not ready. I just did not have time for this. And at that time I was terribly afraid that someone would know about my sexual orientation. Because of this, I did not particularly want to meet other people and producers. It seemed to me that if I talked to a man for a couple of hours, he would find out about me. You can not imagine how difficult it was for me to hide my nature. I spent an enormous amount of energy to skilfully hide emotions. It was incredibly difficult. "
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Martin admitted that he is gay

For a long 14 years, Ricky met with TV host Rebecca de Alba. Relations between them were very complex and the lovers repeatedly parted. In 2000, Martin began to attack journalists with questions about whether he belongs to sexual minorities. Then the artist evaded the answers to such questions and only in 2010 he admitted his homosexuality. On his official website, Martin wrote the following words:

"I am gay and I am happy to inform everyone about this! I really like being who I am by nature. The period when I could not openly talk about my sexual orientation made me stronger. Now I understand that it is useless to struggle with my emotions. I'm glad that now I can talk about this openly. "
Ricky Martin with her husband and children