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Colton Underwood: I Thought The Bachelor Would Make Me Straight “I Prayed To God”
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How Colton Hid His Sexuality on The Bachelor
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Even while filming The Bachelor, Colton was still managing the mechanics of concealment. His most surprising revelation: he got a large cross tattooed on his entire wrist specifically to be identifiable — the idea being that anyone who claimed to have hooked up with a cross-tattooed man could be traced back to him. When that logic felt risky, he simply wrapped it in a bandage and claimed a wrist injury [1] — Colton Underwood "Got a cross tattoo to create gay cover: Colton tattooed a large cross on his wrist as a deliberate identifier, then covered it with a banda…" 48:57 . The interview underscores how exhausting and self-defeating this management of identity had become: every new layer of 'protection' added new risk and required new lies, yet he couldn't stop. Paul's observation that the fence jump might have been an escape from the facade, not just the show, lands visibly with Colton.
