David Archuleta Got Engaged to 3 Women Before Coming Out
David Archuleta is opening up about his love life.
The 34-year-old “Crème Brulée” singer and American Idol finalist spoke out about his experiences with dating women before coming out as queer in 2021 during an appearance on The Zach Sang Show. During the appearance, he revealed he’d been engaged to three different women.
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“Mormons get engaged really fast because you’re supposed to get married. And you’re not supposed to do anything before marriage,” he explained of his religious upbringing.
“So naturally, those impulses and those urges lead to ‘Let’s get married fast because we’re feeling a lot of urges.’ And just wanting to be intimate with each other.”
David also discussed how the church views the LGBTQ+ community, and how there’s a difference between people who experience attraction to members of the same sex, and people who actively indulge in that attraction.
“Because it’s like, ‘Well, you’re not gay; you just struggle with same-sex attraction. There’s a difference because gay people live out their life, which they shouldn’t. But people who struggle with same-sex attraction acknowledge that they have the urges, but they don’t act on them. And that’s okay with God,’” he said that he was told.
“They’re like, ‘Well, if you get married, God will bless you.’ And so I thought by doing that I will naturally fall more and more in love with my girlfriend, and I’ll have enough faith where this won’t be an issue,” David added, saying he was “grateful” he never actually married any of the women.
“I just realized, you know, yeah… I feel like these girls deserve better than this,” he admitted.
“I know a lot of people do follow through with it and have kids, and they’re like, ‘Oh, I’m still queer or I’m still gay.’ I was just like…I can’t be dishonest. I’ve been told all my life to not be dishonest, so why would I suddenly make a decision for the rest of my life where I would be being dishonest?” Watch the appearance above.
More recently, he said that he’s still open to dating women.