'Shake It Up, 'Sonny with a Chance,' and 'So Random' Disney Channel alum Matthew Scott Montgomery recalls secretly going to gay conversion therapy on his days off.
"Disney was always really great to me. Disney had nothing to do with it, it was not their idea," Montgomery noted about his involvement with conversion therapy. "They didn't know, no one knew, my cast mates didn't know at the time."Montgomery recalled growing up in North Carolina with "very, very conservative" parents who taught him to believe that "gay people are the most evil thing that could possibly exist.
He learned to act by passing as straight and, as soon as he could, took his talents to NYU, where after six weeks he was encouraged to try his hand at LA. Shortly after moving to the west coast, Montgomery was cast in a play that would change his life,by Del Shores, in which he portrayed a gay character who gets abused and kicked out of his house — which in turn led to him coming out to his parents.
They did not take it well. His mother collapsed in tears while his father set him up with conversion therapy. Having grown up indoctrinated with guilt and the idea that he was always deserving of punishment, Montgomery decided to attend the therapy sessions.
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