Alyson Stoner is opening up about her decision to go to gay conversion therapy.
The 27-year-old actress and singer revealed in a new interview that she entered the therapy on her own accord, and quickly realized it was everything people say about it.
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Alyson spoke to Insider about her new memoir, “Mind Body Pride”, and talked about why she decided to go to the controversial therapy in the first place.
“I felt stuck. I felt wretched. I felt like everything was wrong with me, even though I, in my heart of hearts, only desired to be a devoted follower of God,” Alyson confessed, thinking that the way she was feeling was wrong.
She adds that “to hear from people you trust, from people you respect, from people you might even aspire to become, that you at your core are ‘rotten,’ ‘abominable,’ that the devil has a target on your back because of your position in Hollywood…it just sends you into a spiral, at least for me, because I just wanted to do the right thing.”
However, after going to the therapy, and coming out of it, Alyson says she still has nightmares over it.
“My mind doesn’t want to even go there. My legs started shaking at the thought of reliving some of it,” she says. “I know firsthand how dangerous it is for me as someone who had access to therapy and other forms of support. And I still was considering whether my life was worth living or, if everything was wrong with me, then what good was it for me to be around, starting to see myself as someone who only brought harm to other people to society.”
Alyson went on, saying that there are many dangers of conversion therapy and labels them as “measurable.”
“Even if someone comes out of it on the other side and says, ‘Hey, no, I’m living a great life,’ there are scars there. There are shadows,” she said. “So yes, I’m not capable yet of going back and recounting specifics, which is an indicator of just how difficult that chapter was for me.”
Alyson first revealed her sexual identity in 2018.
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