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Comedian's Therapy Twist: NYU Was 'Gayest School'
2 Jun
Summary
- Yang attended conversion therapy to enroll at NYU.
- Therapist admitted to a same-sex encounter during a session.
- He was 17 when his parents discovered his sexual orientation.
Bowen Yang recounted a peculiar experience from his youth on the "Smartless" podcast, detailing how he agreed to conversion therapy to attend New York University. Discovered to be gay by his parents at age 17, Yang was presented with a choice: live at home and attend a Colorado state school, or go to NYU with his sister if he participated in conversion therapy.
He described attending 8 weeks of sessions with a therapist in Colorado Springs, who claimed his attractions stemmed from misery. The narrative took a humorous turn during Yang's final session when the therapist recounted a patient's encounter at Denny's, accidentally slipping into the first person and admitting to a sexual act with a waiter.
Yang noted that the therapist only realized his slip into first-person narration after it happened. This experience, he revealed, was a unique path to his enrollment at NYU, which he ironically identified as "the gayest school in the country."
