Louise McSharry publicly shared that she was a lesbian late last year, confirming she had split from her husband, Gordon Spierin.
She admitted that she cried “every day for seven months” after she came out to Gordon.
She explained that she had come out to family and friends years before she shared the news on her podcast, The Catch Up.
However, telling her husband was the “most difficult conversation” she had.
Speaking to Miriam O’Callaghan on her Radio 1 show, Louise explained: “I wasn’t really ready to have that conversation with him yet. It was excruciating, it was horrible. It was the most difficult conversation I’ve ever had in my whole life.”
Louise and Gordon share two young sons together, Sam and Ted.
“The year afterwards was awful. I cried every day for seven months. It was so, so difficult.
“It’s funny now, because I’m a few years along; it’s been three and a half years, and now I am just so happy to be gay, I feel so good about it. But at the time, it felt like such an excruciating truth to live with and not because I had any issue with actually being gay; it wasn’t internalised homophobia. It was just the hurt that I was causing was almost unbearable.”
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Louise and Gordon remain close and co-parent their sons together.
“We are still such close friends, we parent together, and we spend a lot of time together. We still socialise together, we are great, great friends. But that was a hard one. It wasn’t easy; it didn’t happen overnight.
“I’m proud of him, I’m proud of me and us, because we did work at it. Our kids were just the number one priority from the get-go.”
She went on to say that her sons have “taken it in their stride”.
“We didn’t say anything to them for the first few years. It was only when I bought the house, and things were actually going to physically change, that we talked to them about it, because, at the time when we first had the conversation, they were much younger, and it just didn’t really make sense,” she explained.
