Wayne Brady is getting candid about why he kept his sexuality a secret from the public and from those closest to him for years. Wayne recently sat down with his blended family -- including his ex-wife and business partner, Mandie Taketa, their daughter, Maile, 21, and Mandie's life partner, Jason Michael Fordham, who previously worked for Wayne as a dancer and shares son Sundance-Isamu with Mandie -- for a new installment of "Spilling the E-Tea" and opened up about his sexuality and their unique dynamic. Wayne, 52, stars alongside Mandie, Maile and Jason in their new reality show, Wayne Brady: The Family Remix , and the longtime comic and TV personality was asked by his ex-wife why it took so long for him to come out as pansexual to her.
"The answer is easy -- because I didn't know! Like, I didn't know what it was even called," Wayne explained. "It's not like I had this secret that I was sitting on and at night I was pansexual Batman going out." "I didn't know what it was called because I think that we've come so far with the lexicon with those terms, right? And understanding and acceptance," he continued.
"Because back in the day, it was very much, 'Well are you gay and are you not?'" "Knowing, well, maybe I find that person attractive, but that's a man, but I also think this woman is attractive, but also learning that it's not just as black and white as those two things. For me, it took all this time and all this work and all this therapy and all this fight in therapy to ge.