Michael Bublé: Staying Closeted For Your Career Is “Mind-Blowing To Me”

"When my kids grow up...they're going to be proud of their father because their father was on the right side of the line."

From: NewNowNext

 Michael Bublé shared the story of how he met his wife, and how she assumed he was gay, in a new interview with Pride Source.

In it, the 41-year-old singer-songwriter also discussed his longstanding relationship with the gay community, what he thinks about the closeted celebrities that he knows, and the progressive values he’s instilled in his children.

“I gotta guess that there are people out there who are gay in this business but won’t tell anyone,” Bublé said, admitting he has “the worst gay-dar ever.”

 He went on to describe how the politics of remaining closeted for the sake of having a successful mainstream career is “mind-blowing.”

Said Bublé: “Listen, I’m not gonna be the guy who outs the person, but it always made me wonder: ’Why?’ I understand if they are afraid, or they don’t want to tell their parents, but the fact that it could be a question within this business of hurting your business is just mind-blowing to me.”

 Buble also said he couldn’t pinpoint an exact moments in his life where he “learned” about gay people or decided to be tolerant of them, because growing up, he’s always been surrounded by loads of them.

And even despite having two gay uncles (Uncle Frank and Uncle Mike, who’ve been together 40 years), Michael said it was his father who taught him acceptance and open-mindedness from a young age.

“My father and my mother were so progressive, and I’m so lucky that my father just made it very simple,” he said.

“[My father] just said, ’It’s nature. A man can love a man and a woman can love a woman, and this doesn’t just happen with human beings – it’s science. It happens in nature. It happens with almost every animal.'”

Bublé added: “Having two boys of my own who I love more than I’ll ever love myself, I can’t tell you how crushing it would be if they couldn’t feel that they could tell their father that they were gay – or different in any way. To me, (because of them), it just became a much bigger issue.”

Asked whether he’s concerned about his status as an LGBT ally affecting his fan base, Bublé said, “No, no. I’m not. Because you know what, years from now, when my kids grow up and they read this, they’re going to be proud of their father because their father was on the right side of the line.”

You can read the rest of Bublé’s full interview at Pride Source. His new album, Nobody But Me, is out now.