Davis Mallory famously came out as gay while appearing on MTV’s reality show The Real World back in 2007, but now he says he’s no longer a member of the LGBTQ+ community.
The 42-year-old singer and former reality star, who also competed on The Challenge, revealed his new thoughts on sexuality while speaking on stage at the Arise House of Prayer and Worship in Hawaii.
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“I lived a gay lifestyle for about 20 years, I was on a television show The Real World and I came out as a gay Christian. But God really pulled me out of that lifestyle a year ago,” Davis said in a video shared to his Instagram account.
Davis decided to change his sexuality after having dreams about God.
“Yeah, praise God, praise God, honestly,” he said. “He started speaking to me in my dreams and showing me the spiritual warfare that I was going through. Every time I returned to sin I would have a nightmare that a car, my car was being broken into. I had a nightmare I gave my title to someone else. I was giving my identity to someone else while my car was sliding backwards. So he was just showing me these really strong visual dreams, these images of what sin was doing in my life.”
Davis is now on a religious journey and has been baptized.
E! News reports that Davis wrote in a since-expired Instagram Story, “I feel like God gave me this vision that us being righteous and following the law is his perfect plan for us. Sinning in anyway is not his plan for us and is not us honoring his design for how he made us. He did not design us to sin, and when we live a life of sin, we are not just dishonoring God, but we are doing a disservice to ourselves and our character.”
Davis previously has said that he had suspicions about being gay as young as 15.
“I came out to my peers in my junior year of college on a study abroad trip in Europe. I had finally fallen in love for the first time that summer, with a man – and I felt feelings I had never felt before for a woman,” Davis told Out Magazine in 2018.
On coming out on television, Davis said, “I went onto the show with the hopes of making a positive representation of what it meant to be a gay man, as I needed this type of role model for myself to be comfortable being both gay and a man. I hope that I was able to do this for those who saw me on the show, and for many years I have continued to receive heartfelt messages from viewers who said my story encouraged them to come out to their own family.”
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Source: justjared.com