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Then my career turned into-I got my own sitcom, and that was very successful, another levelof success. And I thought, "what if they find out I'm gay, then they'll never watch," and thiswas a long time ago, this was when we just had white presidents-but anyway this was back,many years ago-and I finally decided that I was living with so much shame, and so much fear,that I just couldn't live that way anymore, and I decided to come out and make it creative.And my character would come out at the same time, and it wasn't to make a politicalstatement, it wasn't to do anything other than to free myself up from this heaviness that Iwas carrying around, and I just wanted to be honest. And I thought, "What's the worst thatcould happen? I can lost my career." I did. I lost my career. The show was cancelled after sixyears, without even telling me, I read it in the paper. The phone didn't ring for three years. Ihad no offers. Nobody wanted to touch me at all. And yet, I was getting letters from kids thatalmost committed suicide, but didn't, because of what I did. And I realised that I had apurpose. And it wasn't just about me and it wasn't about celebrity, but I felt like I was beingpunished...it was a bad time, I was angry, I was sad, and then I was offered a talkshow. Andthe people that offered me the talkshow tried to sell it. And most stations didn't want to pick itup. Most people didn't want to buy it because they thought nobody would watch me.
接著,我有了自己的喜劇,也很成功,并且是更大的成功。我又在想,要是人們發(fā)現(xiàn)我是同性戀,該怎么辦?他們再也不會(huì)看我的節(jié)目了。這是很早以前的事情,你們可能不知道,這是我們的總統(tǒng)都還是白人的時(shí)候,那是多年前的事了。我一直都是帶著羞恥和恐懼而活,我最終決定,我不能再這么活著了。我最終決定將這個(gè)秘密公之于眾,要有創(chuàng)造性,同時(shí)也要將我真實(shí)的個(gè)性展示出來。不是為了政治,也不是為了其他原因,只是要把我從背負(fù)已久的沉重的枷鎖中解脫出來。我只是想要誠實(shí)。我想不會(huì)有更慘的事情了。失去演藝事業(yè)。在我做了六年節(jié)目后,電臺在沒有告知我本人的情況下就停播了我的節(jié)目。我是在看了報(bào)紙后才知道的。家里的電話三年沒有響過,沒人想讓我做節(jié)目,沒人愿意接觸我。后來我接到了想要自殺的孩子的來信,他們是因?yàn)槲宜龅氖虑槎鴽]有自殺。我才知道我活在世上是有目的的,不僅僅是因?yàn)槲?,不僅僅是因?yàn)槲沂敲?,我好像是在被懲罰。那段時(shí)間很艱難,我很憤怒,也很難過。但接著有人找我做脫口秀節(jié)目。制作單位想要賣出節(jié)目,但大多數(shù)的電視臺都不想要,大多數(shù)人都不想要買,因?yàn)樗麄冋J(rèn)為沒人想看我的節(jié)目。