14 DAY TRIAL // Internet sensation and “Glee” star Charice is only 22 years old but she’s already known more media scrutiny than some celebrities twice her age, and that’s because her personal life was always the subject of a lot of speculation.
Charice came out as gay in June 2013 but that did little in terms of making the speculation die down because, shortly after, rumors were saying that she was considering gender reassignment surgery to transition from female to male.
She’s addressing all that on this week’s episode of Where Are They Now? on OWN, as the video below can confirm.
Charice comes clean to Oprah about everything
The video is just a preview: the full interview will air on Sunday and will also feature appearances from Playboy Bunny / former MTV star Carmen Electra and singer Macy Gray. However, Charice delivers the goods in only a couple of minutes’ worth of footage.
In this short timeframe, she talks about the day she understood that she was different from other girls of her age and answers the question she must have heard a lot of times in recent years, about her rumored plans to transition.
Hint: she’s not transitioning, she’s just choosing to express herself differently with her style and look these days.
Charice is out and proud, but most importantly happy
“I knew when I was five,” the singer says when asked when she first started thinking that she might be different. “I was in grade school and I saw this girl and I felt different. I didn't know what it was but I just knew that time, like it felt special. And when I was 10 I was like, ‘Oh, that's it. I'm gay.’ I found the word.”
However, it would take her more years to come out in public and even to her family. In fact, when she did it in 2013, she did it in a TV interview because she was terrified of how her friends and family members would react.
She used the interview to apologize to them for not letting them know in private.
As for all that talk that she wants to transition to male, Charice puts it to rest.
“Not exactly transitioning to a male, but basically my soul is like male. But I'm not going to go through that stage where I'm going to change everything – not change my body. I would change, like this look, cut my hair and wear boy clothes and everything, but that's all,” she says.
And this much we already knew because the Charice of today is a sharp contrast from the Charice we knew on “Glee,” from the short, bleached hair, to her more masculine fashion style and a certain confidence that could only come from finally finding the courage to come out.