Get Out! GAY Magazine – Issue 463

INTERVIEW
As an author you’ve recently released
“Flipping the Script: Bouncing Back
From Life’s Rock Bottom Moments”,
what is the premise of the book?
“Flipping the Script” is my
autobiography and partly a self-help
book. I wrote it in 2018. It came out
after a rough patch in my life. Probably
in 2015/2016 I had been a host on an
actual TV talk Show called “Hollywood
Live” on FOX. It was my big dream, I
was so excited to be there....and then
the opportunity went away when I was
replaced by somebody more famous.
I didn’t take that very well. It was my
first big career heartbreak. Then I went
through a series of rough times with
my little sister who is my best friend.
We moved from New York to LA
together, we lived together and then
she met somebody new. She started
to go to a new church and for the first
time in her life judged my sexuality.
Our relationship went out the window.
Then in October of 2016 I received a
tax bill for $16,031. I was home alone
one night in my 10th floor apartment
and I nearly jumped
out of my bathroom
window. Those three
things happened back
to back and really
knocked the wind out
of me. I was down and
out for quite a while,
until I decided to do
something about it.
My way was writing
a book. The book
opens with those
three stories. It’s really
written as a screenplay
in some ways. The
book doesn’t go
sequentially what it
follows in a way that
tells the story of me.
Each chapter opens
with a scene and most
of the chapters in
with script end with
rewrites which are easily accessible
exercises in dealing with real time so
that the reader can actually “flip their
script”. Each of the scenes corresponds
to a season in my life at that moment
and how I was able to overcome each of
those obstacles. Readers can log onto
my website and they can download
their own PDF version of their script or
they can do the exercises in real time
and print it out so that they have an
actual script rewritten from their own
lives. So maybe if things get difficult
down the road they can look back and
say “this is who I am.” I’m very proud
of it. This is the one accomplishment
in my life that I’m more proud of than
anything else.
What an awesome idea.
I haven’t seen anyone do anything
like that. I always try to do something
different. I travel to the beat of my own
drum. I pride myself on being able to
take a unique and genuine view. It was
difficult to write but it was also cathartic.
The feedback that I’ve received since I
wrote it that has come back has made
the whole thing worth it.