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Matt Bomer looks back on being outed by tabloids: 'It felt kind of unfair... that was stolen'

Matt Bomer says it 'felt kind of unfair' being outed by tabloids, a painful turn of events the actor was told lost him the title role in a Superman film.

On Monday's episode of the Dinner's on Me podcast with Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Bomer recalled a time "when folks could kind of take over your own personal narrative before you even had a chance to." Bomer publicly came out as gay during a 2012 awards speech, calling his husband, the publicist Simon Halls, and their three children "my proudest accomplishment." Leading up to a planned speech at the 2012 Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards in Palm Springs, Calif., Bomer began thinking that he didn't want his family "to feel like they were some kind of shameful secret or, something I was sweeping under the rug so I could have a great career."

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