Country Star Chely Wright Done Hiding, Comes Out

By PopEater Staff Posted May 3rd 2010 12:05PM

The speculation is over, the rumors confirmed: The star coming out in this week's PEOPLE magazine is country singer Chely Wright, the first artist to rock her conservative-leaning genre with such news.

"Nothing in my life has been more magical than the moment I decided to come out. I hid everything for my music," Wright tells PEOPLE. The 39-year-old songstress behind the hit 'Single White Female' was raised in the South in "a community in which homosexuality was shunned."

Wright was hesitant to make the announcement for many years. "There had never, ever been a country music artist who had acknowledged his or her homosexuality," she says in PEOPLE's story, on newsstands Friday. "I wasn't going to be the first."

Wright recorded 'Hard to Be a Husband, Hard to Be a Wife' with Brad Paisley, to whom she was once romantically linked.

The announcement is part of a big week for Wright: Her memoir, 'Like Me,' and her first record in five years, 'Lifted off the Ground,' will both hit stores.

Various sources are beginning to speculate how Wright's announcement will play with conservative listeners in the country music community.

Watch the video for Wright's 1999 hit, 'Single White Female,' below:

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Monday 03 May

By gg

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If sexuality has nothing to do with her music, why is she telling it nobody cares who she is sleeping with boy or girl, its getting sickening.

By jeff

big deal. She's awesome and her SWF video is great....great story-telling. WTG, Chely. Oh...and btw, I'm a 50 yo grandpa.

By jake

go back to the closet. liberals suck.

By Frank

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Prove it punk

By Patrick

Im guessing JESUS was the 1st CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN. Though I know that people love to judge others,in spite of HIS word to NOT JUDGE,HE did say HE THAT IS WITHOUT SIN CAST THE 1ST STONE.JUDGE NOT LEST YE BE JUDGED. Thats all.Why are some obsessed with gay people being open? When straight stars are open,Tim & Susan,Claudia & Seal,Goldie & Kurt,Paul & Joanne,thats alright with everyone.Straight stars show spouses and gay ones shouldnt? I know folks of all races & sexualities...and were ALL of the CREATOR.Big freaking deal.

By Mary

Who cares! The world has other important things going on.

By Melissa

Way to go Chely!

By fidonv

Career over!

You are wrong prove it

By Mimi

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If someone isn't going to listen to her music because of her sexual orientation then they clearly have issues! This doesn't change a thing for me because I've always loved her and will continue to love her. All you bigots and homophobes out there can just get over it!

By Jim

Damn, the males have lost another beauty!! We better get our act together or they will all be lesbians soon !

By hdstyle1957

This is news? Another queer/lesbo admitting they are a queer/lesbo? What do they want a reward for being abnormal?

By mk21mil

I think this makes me like her more :)

She says that homosexuality is shunned in the South? I don't believe that for a minute. I never got propositioned so much by gays in my life that summer I lived in Mississippi. Kind of flattering, but hey, cut it out.

By BunnyGirl

>>Country fans tend to have high morals and strong values. They don't support immoral and irreverent lifestyles....or the artist who live them.

By Tom

What a bimbo. Anything for attention anymore. She didn't have to tell anyone anything about her sexual orientation. No one needed to know.

By marahnatha

KD Lang did it a long time ago & she actually was talented, not a tenth string wanna be like this woman. I guess she might sell some records now. I've never heard any of her music.

By Dave

Sooooo, is KENNY next ????

Tuesday 04 May

By Joey

I'd love to see her & Jessica Simpson do some girl on girl film 2gether...they could both really make some money that way!!!

By Mack

She eats at the Y so what !!!!

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