Magic Johnson reveals his son EJ’s coming out ‘changed’ him
nypost.comcame out to the former basketball player, 62, in 2010 and at first, the latter wasn’t too keen about the decision.EJ and his pops looked back on the experience with Variety and candidly opened up about their relationship following the news.“The Rich Kids of Beverly Hills” star noted that while his friends knew of his sexuality at the time, his parents were “the last people” he told.“It wasn’t new for me, but they had to really take that in and digest it,” EJ told the outlet.“Especially my dad, because he was really the last person to talk to.
I think it was just a lot for him to swallow in that conversation. A lot of just going back and forth. And he just was rattling off about things that weren’t particularly nice.
But he’s not somebody who works great being cornered or surprised,” he continued. EJ didn’t officially come out to the public until 2013 when TMZ posted a video of him holding hands with his partner at the time.
After the “EJ in NYC” star told his parents, he noted that his dad often had rules about the way he could dress. “He’d come up with stupid rules: ‘No scarves in the house,’” EJ said. “But it’s really not about scarves; it’s really about him seeing you be you.”Despite familial tensions running a little high, it wasn’t until EJ left for college at New York University in 2013, that Johnson started to come around.“I had only been gone for two months,” EJ added of the time Johnson came to visit him in the Big Apple. “He picked me up at my dorm and I was like, ‘Oh, whatever, hey.’ And he hugged me so hard — he was, like, squeezing all the air out of me.
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