WATCH: Alan Cumming Tells Larry King He Never Felt Shame About Being Bisexual

Actor and author Alan Cumming told Larry King he never felt any shame about his attraction to both genders.

"I never felt it was wrong, Cumming said on Larry King Now, promoting his new bookNot My Father's Son. "I thought perhaps certain times it was going to be difficult because people weren't really receptive to it, but I never felt there was something wrong with me."

Cumming has spoken about his bisexuality in the past, tellingInstinct Magazine, "I still define myself as a bisexual even though I have chosen to be with Grant. I'm sexually attracted to the female form even though I am with a man and I just feel that bisexuals have a bad rap."

He elaborated on that "bad rap" that has affected bisexuals in the past but he said he believes things are getting better. Mentioning fellow bisexual entertainment star Clive Davis, Cumming said, "I do think the world is different now. There's been a kind of a fad where people think, oh, they're not bisexual [or that it] means you're either going to be gay, but you haven't quite -- you don't feel comfortable with it yet or you're kind of just a whore. I do imagine of someone from Clive's generation he had to deal with a lot more of that in the past than now."

King, who asked actress Anna Pacquin last summer whether she was a "nonpracticing bisexual," asked Cumming if as a teenager if he had "feelings for both," to which Cummings answered, "Yeah."

"Did you think you were strange?" King follows up. "Not in that way," Cumming responded with a laugh. "I write about this in the book, I think partly because I saw my father being so, kind of, not out of control sexually but I saw a man that was not able to control his sexual urges. In a funny way I never had shame about sexuality. I just never did."