Ex-Disney star opens up about traumatizing experiences with conversion & electroshock therapy

Image Credits: ‘So Random!,’ Disney Channel (left) | Instagram @matthew_scott_montgomery (right)

No one ever said growing up on screen was easy. But for actor Matthew Scott Montgomery, going through conversion therapy while starring on popular Disney Channel shows only made the experience that much more traumatizing.

Montgomery—who was a regular on sketch series So Random!, and also appeared on Shake It Up, Austin & Ally, and Jessie in the early 2010s—recently guested on former Disney star Christy Carlson Romano’s podcast, Vulnerable, where he opened up about his struggles with his sexuality and the intensive therapies he went through to “treat” it.

Now 34, the actor first reflects on his “very, very conservative” upbringing in North Carolina, a time he says instilled in him these ideas of super rigid heteronormative standards for young men—and that “gay people are the most evil thing that could possibly exist.”

“How I grew up is: you find what sport you’re good at, you get a scholarship for that,” he tells Romano on the podcast. “If that doesn’t work, you get…

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