'Once I did fully embrace that Will was gay, it was just an exponential speed towards accepting it for myself.'
."I would be in a completely different place if I didn’t have Will to portray, and to embrace and help me accept myself. I think if I never played that character, I probably would still be closeted."Millie Bobby Brown"I kept trying to do it in person with her, and it was too hard," he says of telling Brown."So then I just FaceTimed her one day in the middle of a Party City and I was like, 'Millie, I’m gay.
"It kind of blew up in the press, and everyone was like, 'Oh, Will's gay! Hooray!'" he recalls."I saw all these comments on Instagram and TikTok. There was not one bad thing about him being gay. I was like, if he has all this support, then why should I worry about anything?"Schnapp admitted that after he came out in a TikTok video, he stayed off his phone for a bit, not wanting to be"waiting nervously" for reactions to roll in.
"When I opened my phone… it was, like, a thousand texts of hearts and congratulations and rainbow flags," he recalls."I was crying. I was like, 'I made it. I'm done. I don't have to worry.'" And while yes, there have been plenty of people sliding into his DMs following the news, Schnapp said he's taking it easy for now, preparing to film ' fifth and final season, planning for college at the University of Pennsylvania, and working on TBH, the snack company he launched in 2021.
"I'm just enjoying life, and if someone comes by, then sure — but I’m not actively trying to find a match," he notes."All of a sudden, there was this influx of all these people in my DMs. And definitely some, like, big names that I didn’t know about. I just take it as a compliment and move on.
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