Chely Wright  is currently on her media tour for her new album, “Lifted Off the Ground” and for her memoir, “Like Me.”

But, since she revealed on Monday through People magazine that she’s gay, that topic is front and center. In an interview to air today, Chely tells “Access Hollywood” she’s “all those things that country music is about: family, faith and country.” She says she just happens “to be homosexual.” And, she says she wasn’t truthful with Brad Paisley about her sexuality.  When they were dating she says she “could see the damage” she was doing to him so she “cut him off completely, cold turkey.” 

Chely also says she had a private meltdown after lying to John Rich and telling him she wasn’t gay. And, she says she came close to suicide in 2006. She had a loaded gun in her hand but “something snapped” and she started to cry. At that point, she says she realized she had “too much to live for.”

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