His parents are finally granting interviews, in order to promote a new foundation they're launching in their son's honor. A huge story from AP, good for them.
Tyler Clementi, who had been watching TV in the partially finished basement, emerged. She said he was shaking.The trust thing was a common reaction I'd received as well. What I always told people is that even if they were okay with me being gay, I wasn't okay with me being gay. I had to come to terms with it being okay before I could be comfortable telling someone else.
She thought he was having fears about college.
To her surprise, he told her he was gay. And he shared his doubts about faith, and his sorrow about not having closer friends. Each topic would have been a big one on its own — and a surprise to a mother who thought she knew what was going on.
The news altered her expectations for his future. She said she had talked with Clementi during their regular walks together about her frustration that his brother James, whom she believed to be gay, didn't come out to the family. He has since come out. Even in that context, she said, Tyler Clementi never let on that he was gay. "I was a little upset about the trust thing," she said. "Why didn't you tell me before?"
