I'm attracted to women, I love children, and aspire to have a family one day." In his 2012 autobiography, "This Is Me," Thorpe wrote, "For the record, I am not gay and all of my sexual experiences have been straight. "And this is only something that very recently - we're talking in the past two weeks - I've been comfortable telling the closest people around me exactly that."įor years, Thorpe took great pains to hide his sexuality. Thorpe, who had long denied that he was gay, told British talk show host Michael Parkinson in an interview broadcast on Australia's Channel 10 that he just recently realized the truth about himself. SYDNEY - Five-time Olympic swimming gold medalist Ian Thorpe for the first time publicly confirmed that he is gay during a television interview on Sunday, ending years of speculation about his sexuality.
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