Five-time Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe is set to reveal he is gay in an interview on Australian television.
The 31-year-old talks about his sexuality in an interview with Michael Parkinson due to be broadcast on Channel 10 on Sunday.
Thorpe had previously denied he was gay and wrote in his 2012 autobiography ‘This Is Me’ that he was heterosexual.
Australia’s most decorated swimmer has suffered from depression and was in rehab earlier in the year.
Thorpe’s decision to come out was supported by fellow Olympic swimmer Stephanie Ricewho tweeted: “Thorpie is, and always will be, a superstar in my eyes.”
He has spoken in the past of “crippling depression”, having suicidal thoughts, and drinking too much.
In February, he was found in a state of confusion by police near his parents’ house in Sydney.
Source: BBC