Sean Hayes says his mom had him see a therapist after he came out of the closet

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“It was 1988 when I came out,” the Will & Grace star recalls of telling his family he was gay at age 18. “It’s so cliché that it was during Thanksgiving weekend. My mom said I needed to go see a therapist. She wrote me a 10-page letter, both sides on legal pad size paper. ‘This is not what God …’ You know, the whole uneducated view of it.”