{"id":2847,"date":"2026-06-09T05:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:04:53","slug":"rugby-league-international-kane-evans-comes-out-as-gay-in-a-tv-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=2847","title":{"rendered":"Rugby league international Kane Evans comes out as gay in a TV interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>BRISBANE, Australia (AP) \u2014 Ex-rugby league international Kane Evans won\u2019t have to worry about the extortion threats any more or be concerned about his family finding out about his sexuality before he\u2019s ready to tell them.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=2845\">Spurs\u2019 Victor Wembanyama shakes off Game 2 miss by taking over Game 3 of the NBA Finals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a television interview Monday with Channel Nine\u2019s \u201c100% Footy,\u201d Evans said he was gay and that he felt like a weight had lifted off him when he finally could talk about it publicly.<\/p>\n<p>Evans is the first high-level rugby league player in Australia to come out as gay since Ian Roberts in 1995. <\/p>\n<p>Evans played 131 games in the elite National Rugby League from 2014-2021 for clubs including the Sydney Roosters, Parramatta and the New Zealand-based Warriors before finishing off his professional career in England in 2023. He played 13 international games for Fiji.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had three goals in life: It was to play NRL, to buy my parents a house, and then I wanted to top myself, because I was living in denial from a young age,\u201d the 34-year-old Evans said in the television interview. \u201cI know that I\u2019m gay. But I went down every other avenue to sort of build up these walls \u2026 to escape who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After struggling with addiction and suicidal thoughts as he dealt with his sexuality as a younger man and professional footballer, and then experiencing homelessness after a business collapse in his post-rugby league career, Evans finally got the support he needed.<\/p>\n<h3>Helping out<\/h3>\n<p>Evans said it was only after talking to Joe Galuvao, a former player who works with the Rugby League Players\u2019 Association, that he realized help was so close.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank God that he came and visited me and got me into rehab with the help of the RLPA,\u201d Evans said.<\/p>\n<p>Others in the football fraternity reached out, Evans said. Like Sydney Roosters head coach Trent Robinson, who helped pay the bills while Evans was in rehabilitation and invited him back into the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe called me just to let me know that the Roosters are still my home and they\u2019ve got my back, whatever I\u2019m facing,\u201d Evans said. \u201cThat meant the world to me. He took me, my best friend, and one of my mentors to Roosters HQ a week after I got out of rehab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=2843\">New optimism about possibility of bringing an MLB team to Raleigh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evans had planned to come out to his family before the television interview aired. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been fighting a war within since I was about 15 years old and it\u2019s not sustainable,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m here today to show people that you don\u2019t have to live like that. Even now I feel a bit more free, just by saying it out loud, I\u2019ve brought it to the light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evans said he\u2019d had \u201cpeople blackmail me \u2026 I\u2019ve had people try to deflect their problems by trying to out me. And it just built up a lot of shame, and fear and guilt within myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I\u2019ve spoken about it, I\u2019ve shattered all those chains. They\u2019ve lost their power,\u201d he added. \u201cI feel like coming and speaking to you today, fear, shame, guilt \u2014 all of that, I\u2019ve cut ties with all that. I feel peace within.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Great support<\/h3>\n<p>Roberts, who played for Australia in the 1990s, described Evans\u2019 interview as an \u201cextraordinary moment\u201d and \u201cI was in tears watching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so proud of him,\u201d Roberts told News Corp. \u201cEverything he was saying \u2026 I thought \u2018this poor kid,\u2019 I know exactly where he is in his head, what he is going through, the extremes of uncertainty of your own sense of self and your sense of other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Johns, one of rugby league\u2019s greatest players, said the bravery Evans had shown would be encouraging for other people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo come out and tell the world, especially the rugby league world, it\u2019s incredibly strong,\u201d Johns told the Nine network. \u201cThere\u2019s going to be so much love for him in the rugby league \u2014 he\u2019s going to save a lot of lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johns said there were a lot of young people struggling with their sexuality and when \u201cthey see someone like Kane and the pain he\u2019s gone through, and the strength he\u2019s shown, it\u2019ll help them stand up and talk to parents, or people close to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=2840\">5-year-old hit by a vehicle in a Raeford neighborhood, dies in the hospital: Deputies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Kane, well done mate,\u201d he added. \u201cWe all love you. Incredibly proud of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP sports: https:\/\/apnews.com\/sports<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRISBANE, Australia (AP) \u2014 Ex-rugby league international Kane Evans won\u2019t have to worry about the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rugby league international Kane Evans comes out as gay in a TV interview - Raleigh Moving News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=2847\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rugby league international Kane Evans comes out as gay in a TV interview - 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