Why Charlie Carver resented his gay dad
Actor-model Charlie Carver initially felt resentment towards his late father, Robert Mortensen, when the latter revealed to him that he was gay, the former “Teen Wolf” star told gay magazine Attitude.
Carver, 28, came out of the closet himself last year, revealing in an Instagram post that he knew he was different since he was a kid. But he admitted that he didn’t take his father’s revelation well when he was 12.
“In the way that sons and fathers can have beef regardless of [sexual] orientation, it was something where I wanted to be able to define myself and set my own rules,” said Carver. “All of a sudden, I [felt like] I was going to be forced to become someone, and I didn’t want to be like him.”
The situation eventually helped him to accept his own homosexuality. “He taught me, in the way that he lived his life, that your sexuality doesn’t define you.”
Carver is Attitude’s current bachelor of the year. His straight twin brother, Max, starred with him in shows like “Desperate Housewives” and “The Leftovers.”