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\t\t<\/p>\n Bowen Yang<\/strong><\/a> discusses his experience undergoing conversion therapy as a teenager. <\/p>\n The 34-year-old Saturday Night Live<\/em> star opened up about how his family reacted to finding about his sexuality when he was a high school student in Colorado. <\/p>\n \u201cI \u2018came out\u2019 in a sense that my parents just sort of stumbled upon something, and they were like \u2018Oh, we didn\u2019t realize this is what we were dealing with.\u2019 I give them a lot of grace for that because they just had no context for it,\u201d Bowen<\/strong> told Willie Geist<\/strong><\/a> in a new interview<\/a>. <\/p>\n Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Bowen<\/strong> said that his parents then told him that if he wanted to attend his college of choice, New York University, then he would have to go to conversion therapy. <\/p>\n \u201cI kind of played along, and I kind of just humored them and myself into seeing what it was,\u201d Bowen<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n However, he described the experience as \u201cvery painful and detrimental,\u201d and that \u201cthere was a lot of healing that happened after that.\u201d<\/p>\n If you didn\u2019t see, in February, Bowen<\/strong> responded to rumors<\/a> that he got Shane Gillis<\/strong> fired from SNL<\/em>. <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n