The Coalville, Utah native today, lives in Amsterdam and has always been vocal about his reasons for leaving behind Hollywood's glamour and relocating to Europe.
In 2008, while in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the soap opera star asserted how the unapologetic liberal attitudes of the people living in the city lured him there. He also quipped how the people there didn't spend time arguing things like abortion rights, gay rights, and individual rights simply because they didn't have to.
It was great to be in a place where intelligent people didn’t spend so much time arguing about things like abortion rights, gay rights, and individual rights. But people just assumed that those things were part of the fabric of their society…. I found that this was the place I’d been looking for all my life.
Now, as the General Hospital alum stressed that he wanted to live at a place where such rights were normalized and seen as part of society's fabric, it can be interpreted that he desired to live without judgment on his sexuality.
