Wayne Brady on Why He Waited a Decade to Come Out as Pansexual to Ex-Wife Mandie Taketa (Exclusive)
Wayne Brady is getting candid about why he kept his sexuality a secret from the public and from those closest to him for years.
Wayne recently sat down with his blended family — including his ex-wife and business partner, Mandie Taketa, their daughter, Maile, 21, and Mandie’s life partner, Jason Michael Fordham, who previously worked for Wayne as a dancer and shares son Sundance-Isamu with Mandie — for a new installment of “Spilling the E-Tea” and opened up about his sexuality and their unique dynamic.
“The answer is easy — because I didn’t know! Like, I didn’t know what it was even called,” Wayne explained. “It’s not like I had this secret that I was sitting on and at night I was pansexual Batman going out.”
“I didn’t know what it was called because …