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WATCH: Carson Kressley Says Queer Eye Forced Him to Come Out to Parents

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On Say Anything! with Joy Behar, the sartorial stud recalled how the title of his Bravo show forced him to officially come out to his parents.

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Carson Kressley appeared on Joy Behar's Say Anything! program, on Current TV tonight, to share his coming out story.

After telling his parents he was gay in the second grade, Kressley said he didn't broach the subject again until he was 30 years old, and about to star in Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

The program's unabashed title provided the impetus for Kressley to call up his parents, just a day before TV Guide featured the cast of gay men on its cover. Kressley says his parents responded with a resounding "Duh!"

Watch the exchange below.

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