Clay Aiken Confessional

The first time I saw Clay Aiken all those years ago, I knew he was gay. But why did it take him years to confess he is one?

Mo Twister as usual hit it in the head, he mentioned that he could not say 'mo' jokes to friends whose sexual affiliation he wasn't so sure of.

Why not just confess and get over with?

Grace Lee was shocked that Aiken said he's gay. She's so sweet but so cutely naive at times.

According to Aiken in his latest interview at People, following the Aug. 8 birth of his son Parker, singer Clay Aiken is following through on a promise he made to himself as a new dad: to publicly acknowledge that he's gay.

"It was the first decision I made as a father," Aiken, 29, tells the upcoming issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday. "I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that."