Earvin Johnson III, known as E.J., says he feels like he's coming out of the closet a second time and that he's "reveling" in the experience -- even though news of his sexual orientation broke publicly sooner than he had planned.
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"I am very, very, very blessed to have the family that I do," E.J. Johnson said. "My parents have always been super supportive. My sister and I have always been really close and she's been really supportive as with my brother. When it was time to come out, I was, obviously, scared as most people are. After I got all the love and support from my family then I knew I could go out and conquer the world, I guess."
Johnson said he first came out to his mother, who approached him when he was 13 or 14.
"I told her how I was feeling and she obviously told me that she had known and always would love me anyway. The same thing happened with my dad like a year or so later," he said. "Everyone has to get used to it. No parent is prepared 100 percent and fully for something like that. We all had to work and move forward."
He'd like to follow in his famous father's footsteps in one arena: hosting his own talk show. Magic Johnson had a short-lived show on Fox in 1998 that was canceled because of low ratings.
E.J. Johnson said he'd like to be "the voice for young gay people who need someone to be on TV or wherever else to talk to them and talk about all kinds of issues that all of us face and not just homosexual issues but all kinds of issues."
"I definitely want to set a really good example," he said.
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