Towie’s Charlie King opens up about the trauma he put himself through over struggle with sexuality in heart-to-heart with Bobby Norris
CHARLIE King opened up about opened up about the trauma he put himself through over his secret struggle with his sexuality.
In tonight's episode of Towie, he met up with Bobby Norris for the first time in four years and had a sweet catch-up chat as they agreed to get to try and get their friendship back on track.
Back in 2013 Charlie quit the show but, after denying his homosexuality on Towie, he appeared on This Morning and admitted that he was gay.
Bobby and Charlie met up in a cafe and they grinned at one another as they sat down to eat.
Charlie admitted: "I've got to be honest, I've been so nervous about seeing you. Obviously I'm a fully fledged gay man, so I should reintroduce myself."
Bobby smiled and welcomed him to "the club" as the pair laughed together.
Charlie went on to say that he was "cool with all of that" now.
He said: "When I look back and think about all the trauma I was putting myself through... and I'm just so pleased to have gotten rid of that burden."
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Charlie then went on to say that they had both been off on their "journeys" and admitted that he had been "confused" as to why it had been so long since they'd seen one another.
The returning Towie star added: "We were so close... you'd stay at my house, we went to Spain together. I mean, you told me you loved me."
Bobby laughed in embarrassment and exclaimed, "Oh s***!", before admitting: "In all honesty, losing touch with you and our closeness was so hard for me because, hearing that you had publicly come out... I felt embarrassed that I didn't know."
Charlie said that he had just removed himself from the "Essex bubble" and that he was guilty about that. However he described Bobby as a "closed book" and said that he had reached out to him over the years but felt that he hadn't been that forthcoming.
He went on to think that he hadn't thought Bobby was happy for him, which Bobby denied and the pair agreed not to leave it anymore.
Later Bobby had a chat with Gemma and admitted that there was an "element of embarrassment" in meeting up with Charlie again and admitted that he wasn't sure whether they'd be as close as they once were.
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