Stranger Things star, 18, comes out as gay in new TikTok after being ‘scared and in the closet for years’
STRANGER Things star Noah Schnapp has come out as gay in a candid video on TikTok. The 18-year-old - who plays closeted gay teenager Will Byers on the Netflix series - said he was "scared and in the closet" for years.
In a video posted on Thursday, Noah wrote: “When I finally told my friends and family I was gay after being scared in the closet for 18 years and all they said was ‘we know.'" In the clip he lip-synced to someone saying: “You know what it never was?
That serious. It was never that serious. "Quite frankly, will never be that serious.” Noah quipped in the caption: “I guess I’m more similar to Will than I thought.” Back in July, Noah revealed that his Stranger Things character Will is gay and in love with his best friend Mike (Finn Wolfhard).
He told Variety: “It was always kind of there, but you never really knew, is it just him growing up slower than his friends? "Now that he’s gotten older, they made it a very real, obvious thing.
