{"id":26189,"date":"2019-06-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1051656"},"modified":"2019-06-28T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:00:00","slug":"how-will-owen-piersons-dad-react-when-he-finds-out-about-his-sons-upcoming-drag-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/how-will-owen-piersons-dad-react-when-he-finds-out-about-his-sons-upcoming-drag-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"How Will Owen Pierson&#8217;s Dad React When He Finds Out About His Son&#8217;s Upcoming Drag Performance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019524\/rs_600x600-190624083001-600OwenPiersonRNL1052.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.827645051195\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"19.61433447099\">\n<p>Making your drag debut is no easy feat. Sometimes telling your dad about it is even harder.<\/p>\n<p>But <strong>Owen Pierson<\/strong>&#8216;s siblings sound optimistic in this clip from Sunday&#8217;s new <em>Relatively Nat &amp; Liv<\/em>, which will see <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/olivia_pierson\">Olivia Pierson<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s older brother performing in drag for the first time\u2014publicly, at least! Unlike the makeshift cabarets he and cousin <strong>Joel Halcro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/nat_and_liv\/news\/1050929\/see-pre-teen-owen-pierson-perform-in-drag-courtesy-of-this-sweet-sassy-home-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">used to put on in the basement<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;as kids (costumes, wigs and all; they still have videos), Owen&#8217;s upcoming performance is the real deal. Which is really exciting, though he&#8217;s still preoccupied wondering how his father <strong>Brian Pierson<\/strong> is going to handle the news.<\/p>\n<p>Liv and Owen&#8217;s younger sister <strong>Sophia Pierson<\/strong> points out that, much like Joel and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/natalie_halcro\">Natalie Halcro<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s dad, theirs also used to say that &#8220;being gay wasn&#8217;t OK&#8221; back when his son first came out to him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And look at them now,&#8221; Sophia continues, &#8220;how supportive they are now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"65.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"21\">\n<p>&#8220;Dad&#8217;s come around full circle,&#8221; Owen agrees, and Sophia is hopeful that&#8217;s indicative of Brian&#8217;s eventual understanding in this new scenario too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve fully come around,&#8221; she reiterates, &#8220;so why wouldn&#8217;t he come around for this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Joel suggests&nbsp;Owen&#8217;s nerves about the whole thing have less to do with getting his dad&#8217;s approval and much more to do with the event itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think you&#8217;re probably more concerned about just being on a stage performing,&#8221;&nbsp;says the Halcro bro. And while his cousin&#8217;s reaction indicates he may&nbsp;have a solid point there, it&#8217;s hard&nbsp;to believe Brian&#8217;s blessing wouldn&#8217;t help calm those nerves a little bit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hear more about Owen&#8217;s pre-opening night jitters\u2014and find out how Liv reacted when she first found out her brother was gay\u2014in the clip above!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch a brand new episode of <em>Nat &amp; Liv<\/em> Sunday at 11 p.m., only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1051656\/how-will-owen-pierson-s-dad-react-when-he-finds-out-about-his-son-s-upcoming-drag-performance?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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Unlike the makeshift cabarets he and [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-10 22:26:07","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":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}