Actor Daniel Franzese has opened up about his experience of conversion therapy, saying that he was "brainwashed" into cutting ties with his mother after forcing himself into the pseudoscientific treatment because he "didn't want to be gay".
Franzese, who played Damian in the 2004 film 'Mean Girls', said he felt “lovingly tolerated” by his Catholic and Pentecostal Christian congregation, but that it was “the world around” him that made him “feel like being gay was not OK".
The actor said he met with a conversion therapist who was recommended to his grandmother by her church pastor.
