Kenworthy
on how he first asked Wilkas out:
“I’d
written him a message on Instagram while [his first boyfriend] Robin and I were on a break – I’d seen Matt in the movie
Gayby, and he’d popped up on my Instagram with these videos he
makes, and I watched a few of them – he used to do these ones with a
silly chick who wiggles when the sun hits her, and I thought they were
really funny. I followed him, he followed me back,
and I wrote him this really long message on Instagram. I said, “Hey, I
think you’re really funny, and you seem really sweet, and I’ve been
enjoying following you on Instagram, and actually I’m in the closet
right now, and I’m coming to New York in a couple
of week if you want to get a coffee or something.”
Wilkas’s
reaction to being asked out on Instagram:
“Gus
reached out to me on Instagram, and he was very sweet. I think he said
he really liked my sense of humor and thought I was funny, and I
thought,
Who is this guy? I didn’t know what free-skiing was. I’d just
come out of a relationship and was going to therapy and wasn’t really in
the right place, so when he asked me out, essentially on a date, via
Instagram, I couldn’t do it.”
Kenworthy
on saying “I love you” for the first time:
“…
I could feel his heart beating and sensed his energy, and he turned to
me and said, ‘I want to tell you something, but I’m scared,’ and I just
totally hijacked it and said, ‘I love you.’ And then he said it back,
and he was crying, and I was crying. It was
really sweet.”
Wilkas
on their long-distance relationship:
“For me, being apart a lot of the time is a good thing, but I don’t think Gus feels that way. He doesn’t really want a long-distance relationship. I don’t either but think time apart is valuable and can work.”
“For me, being apart a lot of the time is a good thing, but I don’t think Gus feels that way. He doesn’t really want a long-distance relationship. I don’t either but think time apart is valuable and can work.”
Kenworthy
on their future:
“All
relationships take work, and we’ve definitely begun to realize that…I
was in a relationship from 18-23, and I still haven’t really experienced
that much sexually. I wouldn’t want to ever sacrifice my relationship
with Matt just to go out and get that out of
my system, but we’ve also talked about that and he doesn’t want to
deprive me of experiencing anything while I’m still young. I don’t
necessarily know what that means. But we’re not in an open relationship
and we’re not breaking up. But we’re also not getting
married.’”