When Jason Collins came out as the first pro basketball player to publically be open as a homosexual, it was received with support from many in the media and from around the sport, but one person who was not so happy about the revelation was Carolyn Moos, the former fiancee of the basketball player.
Moos, who played in the WNBA and at Stanford like Collins, dated Collins for eight years and was engaged to him before he called off their engagement and wedding just one month before they were set to get married. Collins called things off back then for no reason and now the 35-year-old has written an article for the magazine Cosmopolitan about how much it hurt her and confused her for years.
Moos said she spent four years figuring out what went wrong and while she "empathized" with Collins about his revelation, it shocked her when she found out about it the night before the story was set to come out. Collins called her beforehand and she wrote that she still is deeply hurt by him, although she likely wouldn't have wanted him to just lie the rest of his life and marry her as well. She detailed him calling her the night before the story came out and that they didn't talk much and also said how "sad" it was that the media seems to be a higher priority than she is.
While Moos of course deserves to feel how she feels, surely she did not want to have Collins marry her and lie to her and while he did not disclose his true feelings beforehand, the overall climate was not how it was now and his career may have been over. She described how she loved him and how tough it was after he called off the wedding and how she is still trying to recover from it. Collins is being looked at as a pioneer and rightly so, while Moos is still left hurting.
