In his cover story for the latest issue of Attitude, superstar Ricky Martin admits researching his role as Gianni Versace's former partner Antonio D'Amico in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story forced him to "re-live" his own early life as a closeted gay man.
"I was a closeted gay man who was making my partners hide. I had relationships with other men who were in the closet and I had other relationships with men who were not in the closet but because of me went back into the closet.
"And so I’m re-living everything that I did."
"I submitted myself to my career completely. I didn’t open doors to new relationships, and I’m not talking about romantic relationships, I’m talking about any relationship, because I didn’t want people to know me too much," he explains.
"I wouldn’t even sit down and have a cool relationship with amazing producers or great film directors because I was afraid that if they spent more than two hours sitting with me they would know my nature.
"I wasted so much energy trying to manipulate my sexuality."
Martin, who came out in 2010, is now married to Swedish artist Jwan Yosef and is father to 9-year-old twins Matteo and Valentino.
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