Think your coming out story is cringy? Jesse Tyler Ferguson, aka Mitchell Pritchett in ‘Modern Family’ revealed how he was outed at 14 after stealing hardcore gay porn from a convenience store.

When asked how he first came out to his father, Jesse told Aisha Tyler on her podcast Girl on Guy, that he was humiliated when he was caught shoplifting gay porn magazines, and then having to explain himself to his father.

He revealed:

“I was caught stealing gay porn when I was 14, I always consider that my coming out. It was so humiliating. I had been stealing porn for a while, I had quite a little a collection.

“I had been stealing porn and I had three magazines underneath my shirt. I guess the certain magazine that I picked up had a sensor in it, and I set off the alarm. I had to go back to the woman who asked me if I had anything in my backpack – she was giving me the benefit of the doubt.

I couldn’t be like, ‘some porn fell inside my pants’ – I lifted up my shirt and I had tears in my eyes. She took me to the back room and they brought my dad in, showed him the nature of the material that I was stealing. It was really, really humiliating.”

Ouch!

Listen to the full interview here.