{"id":290343,"date":"2020-04-01T15:06:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T21:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1136648"},"modified":"2020-04-01T15:06:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T21:06:10","slug":"colton-underwood-opens-up-about-his-sexuality-fighting-coronavirus-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/colton-underwood-opens-up-about-his-sexuality-fighting-coronavirus-much-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Colton Underwood Opens Up About His Sexuality, Fighting Coronavirus &amp; Much More"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44.842105263158\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"33.631578947368\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/colton_underwood\">Colton Underwood<\/a><\/strong> couldn&#8217;t be more grateful for girlfriend <strong>Cassie Randolph<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the former Bachelor gave <em>Daily Pop<\/em> co-host <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/justin_sylvester\">Justin Sylvester<\/a><\/strong> an update on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1133050\/the-bachelor-s-colton-underwood-tests-positive-for-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his coronavirus battle<\/a>. As the retired NFL player revealed he&#8217;s &#8220;feeling so much better,&#8221; he also stated that wouldn&#8217;t be on the mend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1133205\/how-cassie-randolph-is-helping-boyfriend-colton-underwood-amid-his-coronavirus-diagnosis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">without Randolph and her family<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been going well, I can&#8217;t say enough good things. They&#8217;ve helped me so much,&#8221; Underwood shared on being quarantined at Randolph&#8217;s family home in Huntington Beach. &#8220;I&#8217;ve obviously been quarantined in their house for this whole entire period, I&#8217;ve been out down in Huntington. So, without them, I don&#8217;t know where I&#8217;d be right now. So, I can&#8217;t thank them enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back in March, the 28-year-old reality star confirmed that he had tested positive for the coronavirus. Following his diagnosis, Underwood rested and self-quarantined at his lady love&#8217;s family residence in California.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, Randolph is a nurse and was able to give proper care to her blond beau. Per Underwood, Cassie wore gloves and a mask when delivering supplies to his bedside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think getting ill and dealing with this situation has only made us stronger,&#8221; Underwood added. &#8220;Cass is a great nurse and followed all the guidelines and everything, so I can&#8217;t say enough good things about her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"65.991176470588\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"24.441176470588\">\n<p>Furthermore, Underwood said he felt &#8220;so blessed&#8221; that Cassie and her family haven&#8217;t displayed any symptoms. &#8220;I definitely owe her,&#8221; he quipped. &#8220;For sure!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having just released his memoir, titled <em>The First Time<\/em>, Underwood also opened up to Sylvester about why he wanted to share his journey. As we previously reported, <em>The First Time<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1136001\/colton-underwood-talks-sexuality-bachelor-stardom-and-his-many-exes-in-juicy-book#photo-988587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tackles many topics<\/a>, including his path to <em>The Bachelor<\/em>, mental health, his sexuality and more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have such a hyper-masculine community\u2014that I was, at least, a part of with the locker room environment. Sometimes it&#8217;s not &#8216;manly&#8217; or &#8216;not cool&#8217; to go to therapy or you can&#8217;t talk about specific things because that&#8217;s not what football players do,&#8221; Underwood noted after confirming that he goes to therapy. &#8220;For me, it was very therapeutic to write about it and I hope that it just helps one or two people, at least.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44.5\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20191015\/rs_634x1024-191115130535-634-colton-underwood-mv-111519.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Colton Underwood, Cassie Randolph\" alt=\"Colton Underwood, Cassie Randolph\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"29\">\n<p>In regards to his internal struggle about his sexuality, Underwood expressed that the constant speculation about his personal life made him confused.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rumors were going around, the rumors were spreading like crazy, and I didn&#8217;t have anybody to really talk to or address it with,&#8221; he detailed. &#8220;And once you start hearing something so many times, you start believing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since he internalized this situation &#8220;for the longest time,&#8221; Underwood said it caused him to have a &#8220;constant struggle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, it wasn&#8217;t so much so, &#8216;I need to be this way or I need to be that way,'&#8221; Underwood relayed. &#8220;I just wanted the peace of mind, I wanted the freedom, I didn&#8217;t want to feel captive and I just didn&#8217;t address it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, Underwood certainly addresses it all in his new book. Will you be picking up a copy? Be sure to let us know.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>NBC News Special Report: Coronavirus Pandemic<\/i> Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET\/7 p.m. PT on NBC, MSNBC and NBC News NOW. For the latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic and for tips on how to prevent the spread of COVID-19, please visit The Center for Disease Control and Prevention at https:\/\/www.cdc.gov.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1136648\/colton-underwood-opens-up-about-his-sexuality-fighting-coronavirus-much-more?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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As the retired NFL player revealed he&#8217;s &#8220;feeling so much better,&#8221; he also stated that wouldn&#8217;t be on the mend without Randolph and her family. &#8220;It&#8217;s been going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-24 04:57:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}