Luke Evans reflects on growing up gay in a ‘very religious’ Jehovah’s Witness household

Actor Luke Evans has reflected in his new memoir, Boy From the Valleys: My Unexpected Journey, on what it was like to grow up gay in a “very religious” Jehovah’s Witness household.

The Beauty and the Beast star recently released his new memoir, Boy from the Valleys: An Unexpected Journey. In the book, Evans details “his humble beginnings in a quaint Welsh mining village to the dazzling lights of Hollywood” and even recalls homophobic bullying in his youth. 

Before he got his big break in 2010’s Clash of the Titans, he had to navigate his journey to self-acceptance as a gay person, largely without any LGBTQ+ role models to look up to. 

In an exclusive interview with PinkNews, Evans said: “I grew up in a very religious household where the

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