To many, that’s a legitimate thing to ask, often justified with yet more rhetorical questions. “I don’t think these questions are fair questions, but they are questions that often follow these stories … Who cares?” “If I can put this question to you very gently, Isaac,” said Epstein. Then came a line of inquiry into which the veteran broadcaster could only tiptoe. And how this all once culminated in a suicide attempt.Įpstein praised the young National Basketball League centre for his bravery in becoming the only out male professional basketball player on the planet, and together they celebrated the overwhelmingly positive public response to the news. The way his only companion was an aching loneliness. He explained, too, the exhaustion of keeping his sexuality a secret. Speaking with bald candour to the usually convivial Melbourne host Raf Epstein, Humphries tried to convey the deep disgust he’d long felt for himself. Humphries, who is now 25, sat upright on his long white couch at home, with his phone pressed to his ear, and spent the program recalling the tearful, viral admission he had made to his Melbourne United teammates.
O n the afternoon of November 30, 2022, two weeks after Isaac Humphries told the world he was gay, the young athlete was interviewed on ABC Radio. This story is part of the February 11 edition of Good Weekend.
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