In People’s excerpt from his upcoming memoir, “Pageboy,” out subsequent week, the Oscar nominee recalled the encounter, which he stated occurred at a birthday celebration in Los Angeles a few months after he got here out as homosexual in 2014. (Web page got here out as trans in 2020.)

Web page wrote in a chapter titled, “Well-known A—hole at Occasion,” that an A-list actor — whom he known as an “acquaintance” — stated to him, “You are not homosexual. That does not exist. You’re simply afraid of males.”

Based on the “Umbrella Academy” star, the acquaintance added, “I’ll f— you to make you understand you aren’t homosexual.”

Web page stated he encountered the unnamed actor days later, writing that the person advised him, “I haven’t got an issue with homosexual folks I swear.” Web page stated he replied, “I believe you may.”

The “Juno” star advised Those that he is “purposely not sharing his title. However he’ll hear about this and know it is him.” Based on Web page, many individuals on the social gathering witnessed the alternate between himself and the opposite actor.

He additionally stated he is skilled comparable encounters previously.

“I’ve had some model of that occur many occasions all through my life,” he advised Folks. “Lots of queer and trans folks take care of it incessantly. These moments that we frequently like do not speak about or we’re supposed to simply brush off, when really it’s totally terrible.”

Web page added, “I put that story within the ebook as a result of it’s about highlighting the truth, the s— we take care of and what will get despatched to us continually, notably in environments which can be predominantly cis and heterosexual. How we navigate that world the place you both have extra excessive, overt moments like that. Or you will have the extra, like, refined jokes. [In Hollywood] these are very highly effective folks. They’re those selecting what tales are being advised and creating content material for folks to see all all over the world.”

“Pageboy: A Memoir” can be launched on June 6.

The actor appeared on a current episode of “TODAY with Hoda and Jenna,” to advertise his newest youngsters’s e-book, “The One and Only Sparkella and the Big Lie“, and ended up speaking extensively about his life as a single dad.

Hoda Kotb made the primary probe, asking what kind of father he’s to daughter Everly, 10, who he shares with ex Jenna Dewan.

“I don’t know, I don’t know. I’m simply making an attempt to get by,” he admitted. “I believe like each different mother or father, you’re simply making an attempt to not mess your youngsters up. However you are going to.”

“After I knew I used to be going to have a child, I used to be like, ‘Alright, I’m in all probability going to be the mother or father — I plan to be the mother or father — who was in all probability going to get her in additional hassle than I saved her out of.’ After which as they type of become older, you begin to understand, ‘Oh, I’ve to set boundaries,’” Channing added.

“And weirdly, youngsters, though they do not need boundaries, they do need boundaries,” he continued. “Her anxiousness goes down, her stress degree goes down when she simply understands the foundations. And so they’re not even your guidelines, we name them the home guidelines.”

The foundations, in the meantime, are easy sufficient: “you gotta all the time take your plate to the sink, you gotta choose up your garments, you gotta brush your enamel — simply actually regular, easy stuff.”

Jenna Bush Hager famous how the Sparkella e-book sequence started roughly across the time Channing had cut up from Dewan.

“I did not plan to be a single dad, that was not within the playing cards [or] in my planning as a minimum,” Channing mentioned. “And I used to be fairly nervous. I used to be like, ‘She’s a woman.’ I used to be like wanting up YouTube on how you can braid her hair. I did not need to be the dad who was bringing her to highschool wanting like she had simply slept on the road. So yeah, this sequence of books type of got here from that. It was me actually determining how you can discuss to a little bit lady.”

Channing and Dewan cut up in 2018 after 9 years of marriage.