'I was just not ready to come out.'
Ricky Martin opened up about feeling “violated” when Barbara Walters confronted him about his sexuality in a 2000 interview.came out publicly, Walters addressed rumors that were circulating at the time about Martin being gay.
"You could stop these rumors," Walters told him."You could say, as many others have, 'Yes, I am gay,' or you could say, 'No, I'm not,' or you could leave it as you are, ambiguous." At the time, Martin looked uncomfortable with the question, and he eventually replied, “I just don’t feel like it.”"When she dropped the question, I felt violated because I was just not ready to come out. I was very afraid,” Martin told"A lot of people say, what would you do differently?" he said, before adding,"Well, maybe I would have come out in that interview. It would've been great because when I came out, it just felt amazing.
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