after his eight years in the oval office. he was then a certain man and he was also sure of his moral code. he felt that he had made the decisions he had to make despite all the criticism and there was a lot of it out there. that's the same man i saw here today. his decisions, still controversial, two wars and bailout and failing economy, the decisions were the right one and he's also certain that history may, in fact, judge him differently but he says he can live with that. thank you so much for joining us from coral gables, florida. i bid you good night. we'll see you next week on "state of the union." ♪ >> larry: tonight, ricky martin sizzles on the world stage and

now on the pages of a revealing new book celebrating an incredible career. ♪ the international pop star gets personal about a private life. a secret he kept for so long. how his love for his twin sons forced him to go public. ricky martin answers my questions your and yours, too, next on "larry king live." we love him. good evening and a very special welcome to our cnn espanol viewers. ricky martin sold more than 80 million albums worldwide. as the author of a new memoir simply titled "me." we'll have ricky reading from the book. why did you title it that?

>> very simple. it was my life. it was my moments, my ups and downs. it's about me. >> larry: why now? >> i'm going talk about my children for a minute. when i held them in my arms. >> larry: twins, right? >> twin boys. i said, this is about -- it's about dignity. it's about love. it's about transparency. i need to do something about this. and then one day i sat in front of the computer and i started writing about my foundation and my trips to india. and i said i think i found the right way to do it. so it was something that was -- it was there. it was very organic how it happened. >> larry: you didn't think much about having kids did you? >> i always wanted to be a dad. >> larry: yeah? >> yeah, yeah. i have amazing memories with my father.

i always said, you know what? this is something that needs to happen. i didn't know how i was going do it. and then the work that i do with my foundation which is about human trafficking, child trafficking, you know, i read -- i read and i heard so many testimonies of children and the way they heal easily. i guess something happened there that triggered the paternity. >> larry: was it hard to write? >> it was intense. very intense at moments. very painful at moments. very extremely vulnerable at moments and then moments of joy. >> larry: because you didn't have to write it. >> i didn't have to but it felt amazing at the end when i said my book is done. it just felt liberating. it felt -- it just felt right, yeah. >> larry: in describing this journey that brought you to where you are today, your memoir includes a section that you call

baby steps. >> yeah. >> larry: would you read part of this first and then we will get into it? >> it was approximately five years ago when i understood and felt deep down in the bottom of my heart and soul that i was finally ready to accept my truth. i had plenty of time to think, to fall in and out of love and to live through everything that i had to live through. until then, even though i knew deep down in my heart what i was about, i didn't own it. i didn't feel the need to tell the rest of the world. on one hand i felt it was nobody's business but my own. on the other hand i simply didn't see how i was going to change everything. and i have to go back to my children. transparency. >> larry: how did you come to have the twins? >> i stopped my last tour, black and white tour. an amazing tour. world tour. and i said this is the right

moment. i can take it any more. >> larry: how did you get them? >> surrogacy. i searched many options. adoption is a very beautiful option and maybe in the future that would be the way. but science and medicine has given us so much. >> larry: so you had a surrogate mother? >> i had a surrogate mother. >> larry: your sperm? >> my sperm and an egg donor. very simple. since the moment i typed sur ro ga sy in the commuter until the moment i held my children it was exactly a year. >> larry: during all the years of your fame. you were in the baby group. how old were you? >> i was 12 years old. >> larry: that group hit it early. >> in 1977 they started. they became a phenomenon by the beginning of the 80s. >> larry: all from puerto rico? >> yes. i started in july of 1984. >> larry: then you broke away, of course, on your own?

>> five years later i was done with the band. larry, i was so tired. and i went to new york city to live and to relax. it was the first time in my life that i was literally not following a schedule and it was very important for me to do so. >> larry: i have seen your work. seen you in concert. you entertained at a gala for our heart foundation and my son was six months old and danced with you on stage. there were always rumors about you. you had heard them, right? >> yeah, yeah, of course. >> larry: what was that like? what was that life like to live? >> i was just not ready to even focus on the idea of -- >> larry: coming out? >> coming out and telling the world that i was -- that i am gay. and the way i was treated for some members of the media, it didn't feel right. it didn't feel good. >> larry: how do you mean?

>> it was treated in a very markable way. everything within told me don't do it. it's just not right. are you? are you gay? are you bisexual? what are you? who are you? to be honest, larry, i didn't know why i didn't know back then. i wasn't ready. and no one should be forced. no one should be forced to come out. >> larry: how did you come out? >> well, first to my mother. and she actually asked me, my son, are you in love? and i was in love. and she said, is it with a man? and i said, yeah, mom, it's with a man. it's fantastic. stand up and give me a hug, she said. with my father, pretty much the same way. >> larry: hold on.

people saw your act. it was very sexual and sensual act. >> it still is. and it always will be. >> larry: were you before this or in the earliest case pretending? >> i am gay and i enjoy dancing with women. and i will always enjoy -- i allow myself to feel the music and just go for it. >> larry: you had to pretend a life, didn't you? >> i didn't -- i don't know if i was pretending. because i didn't know who i really was. i didn't know. denial is very powerful. and whenever i had an encounter with a man i would think about it and keep walking. you see? sexuality is very complex, and it is very different for everybody. there are moments that i said yes. yes, i am. how am i going tell the world? and then there are moments when

i started dating a woman and it felt right and comfortable. >> larry: you had relations with women? >> i had very steady relationships with women. i can say i fell in love with women and it felt right. >> larry: in love, physically in love? >> i fell physically in love. a lot of people say, yeah rick, maybe you were trying to prove to yourself something. okay. may i was. but in the meantime i was feeling. i was feeling comfort, passion. i lt passion. and it felt beautiful. >> larry: so can that still come again? with a woman? >> you know, like i say in my book, love is about souls and encounters. today, i am a gay man. and everything about saying this feels right. for many years i would say bisexual.

and then i would ask myself bisexual? does that even exist? maybe yes. when i was with a woman i was loyal and faithful to that woman. and i would not look any other way. >> larry: but there was a but? >> there was a but, but that but didn't -- the thought of that wouldn't last two seconds. i would try not to think about it. >> larry: so you never thought you would be sitting on a worldwide television program saying i am a gay man? >> i never thought. trust me, larry, if i knew how good it was going feel i would have done it ten years ago. >> larry: much more on ricky's life. we will preview his new single, too. the book is "me". we'll be right back. ber i'm supposed to reach, or... tdd# 1-800-345-2550 it's beach homes or it's starting a vineyard. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 come on! tdd# 1-800-345-2550 just help me figure it out in a practical, tdd# 1-800-345-2550 let's-make-this-happen kind of way. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 a vineyard? give me a break.

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right? it's just out? >> thank you. very simple. reggae-ish. tropical vibe. a lot of people say i was not expecting this kind of music from you in your comeback. i thought you would do a power ballad or a "living la vida loca" vibe. >> larry: speaking of coming back, where did you go? >> i know. >> larry: you owned the world and then suddenly you were gone. >> i needed to step back. >> larry: did you hibernate? >> yes. i started working in 1994 and i did not stop until like two days ago. it was very important for me to find silence. my trips to india just spending time in the u.s. going across country. really finding silence is something that i was not used to. something that i was afraid of.

i haven't been more creative since when i took that time. >> larry: you came out on your website, too? >> i sent a twitter. >> larry: march 29th of this year you published a letter that concluded i am proud to say i am a homosexual man. i am very blessed to be who i am. >> i was so ready. >> larry: not scared? >> i couldn't take it anymore. i was ready to -- i wrote that letter on a friday. i think i made it public on a monday. so that weekend for me was eternal. but, you know, i wanted to wait for everyone in the office to come back. you know? to work. and i sent it to everybody first. my mother was coming to miami where i live. from puerto rico. i wanted her to be near me before i made it public. all i know is when i pressed send, i just felt alive, really.

>> larry: were there very rough days when your -- i mean, the hiding -- hiding's the wrong word. when you're trying to find who you are. i mean, that must be terrible. >> yeah, you know what happens, larry? everything around me was telling me that what i was feeling was not right. that was probably evil. from my faith. >> larry: evil? oh faith. >> a lot of people say maybe your culture. i don't think about the culture i think this is something that people from all over the world deal with. it doesn't matter if you are european, latin american or hispanic in the u.s. asian. you deal with acceptance. it was -- it was -- it happened at my age. right now there are men and women that are dealing with this and they're 17. >> larry: how old are you? >> i'm 38. >> larry: to the latin or this is the image, to the latin the thought of being gay is very difficult.

it's very not macho. >> right. >> larry: wasn't that hard? >> maybe that was one of the reasons why it took me so long. >> larry: you were afraid? >> yeah. because my emotions were not compatible at all with everything that i represented. but then again i think about it for a minute and then keep working, working, that's all i did, not to think about this. there was a moment in my life where the only thing keeping me away from actually accepting or actually confronting my reality was work and work was also taking me there. everybody was asking me about it. >> larry: when you saw the gays put down or anti-gay material or people speak against gays, weren't you pained? how did you handle that? >> yeah. it was very painful. i think it was probably one of

my lowest moments where i was seeing injustice. and me with the power that i had -- >> larry: you did. >> to be able to be in front of a camera and talk about something that's not right and not do it, that was devastating for me. >> larry: we'll talk about ricky's sons, his charity work, his friendship with a supreme court justice, yeah. lots more with ricky martin coming up. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. from new car replacement and guaranteed repairs to accident forgiveness, we do all we can to help you move on. liberty mutual auto insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? [ male announcer ] ever have morning pain slow you down? introducing bayer am,

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♪ >> larry: the book is "me." the author is ricky martin. barbara walters interviewed ricky for her 2000 oscar special and pushed him pretty hard about his sexuality. watch this. >> i think that sexuality is something that each individual should deal with in their own way. that's all i have to say about that. >> well, you know, you could stop these rumors. you could say, as many artists

have, yes, i am gay. or you could say, no, i'm not. or you could put it as you are ambiguous. i don't want to put you on the spot. you know this is being said. >> thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to express the rumors. but for some reason, i just don't feel like it. >> larry: only our dear barbara could say i don't want to put you on the spot but are you gay? i love barbara. >> it really is funny now that i look at it. i haven't seen that video in a while. >> larry: did that bother you? because she has said that she kind of regrets questioning you as she did. >> at the moment, i felt invaded. once again, larry, i was just not ready. i was not ready. why?

i don't know. could be a thousand reasons why i was not ready. but you know, two days later i was already working again. >> larry: was there a time when you knew you were gay? >> yeah, yeah. >> larry: how old were you? >> maybe like -- i was like early 20s. probably 20, 21 years old i fell in love and i fell in love with a man. i was about to give up everything. my career -- >> larry: was he in show business? >> no. not in show business. i was like you know what? let's go. let's go explore the world. let's live in europe and asia and live a beautiful life. how romantic and naive. >> larry: what happened to it? >> you know, like any other relationship, it didn't work. it didn't happen. it felt horrible when we broke up. it felt really painful. i was in my early 20s. it just felt so bad that i thought okay. maybe this is just not right. ignorant on my part. i guess. it's not right. maybe i'm not gay. so i started dating women again. and it felt good.

>> larry: you must have been mixed up. >> it is very confusing. it is very confusing. you know what? right now as we are talking there are thousands of men and women who are struggling with acceptance. it's very difficult. because, you know, unfortunately, what you're feeling is not compatible with what society dictates or with what your faith dictates or what your family are telling you to feel. and it's just not right unfortunately. this is the reality. >> larry: with you did faith play a part in this? >> totally. totally. >> larry: catholic? >> i grew up catholic. i don't want to say it is catholicism. it could be any religion. there are many religions that accept homosexuality and have no problem with it. but unfortunately the one i grew up in, yeah. >> larry: ricky martin, the book is "me." still lots more to go. lots more to talk about. we'll talk about that supreme court justice, as well.

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♪ >> larry: are you having as much fun as it appeared? >> when i was on stage, larry -- when i'm on stage i am always having fun. >> larry: you never let anything bother you when you're on? >> i never let anything bother you. you are dealing with 20,000, 25,000 -- >> larry: do you miss it? >> i do miss it. but i -- one of the things that made me stop and go home for a minute was the fact that not even being on stage was giving me that rush and that happiness

and that joy. so i said wait a minute. one thing is not to like interviews too much because they are invasive. but to be on stage and not have a good time, what's going on? it's time to stop. now i am ready to go back. >> larry: you are going back, right? >> march, hopefully, yeah. world tour. >> larry: all right. you call yourself gay or bisexual? are you still bisexual? what are you? >> very confusing. for everybody but for me. i am gay. >> larry: no interest in women at all? >> but, i am gay. >> larry: period. >> g-a-y. gay. >> larry: we tweeted. we get a lot of tweets for you asking if you are involved with someone now? >> i am in a relationship and i am very happy. >> larry: are you open? do you bring him around? >> it's usually very overwhelming to start a relationship, like we were talking in the break. to be in a relationship with ricky martin it gets a little

more overwhelming for some reason in this point of my life when i am presenting my book and everything. but we are not afraid of anything, not hiding anything. whenever we decide to make it public we will walk on the red carpet together or something i guess. >> larry: were you ever bullied? >> you know, larry, i'm bullied today. >> larry: how so? >> it's very weird. you know? is i am a twitter fan and i check my messages all the time and you can get 100 messages of love and you are very happy. and then you get that one message of a hater and, you know, if you are in a bad day it ruins your afternoon. it's so sad that there is still hate out there. >> larry: then why look at it? >> yes, of course. you don't look at it and you ignore it. you have your bad moments and you look at it. >> larry: why bother to see what they're saying? >> for me, networking is amazing. >> larry: you're nuts then.

>> i'm nuts. i think what twitter has done for me and facebook and all this social network is have an immediate reaction of what's going on out there. in fact when i was recording my music i would let them know what i -- what my -- what i was learning and listening and they would say i love this. i don't -- it's very interesting. networking. it's a new way. it's a new era. >> larry: as a kid, how did you handle success early? >> when i was 9 years old i really wanted to be in the show business. i would grab a wooden spoon and start singing. even if it was for my uncles and aunts and i would just sing any la la song. >> larry: but you got well-known early, right? >> at the age of 12 i became part of the music band menudo. one day i was riding my bike to go to school and next day i was flying a private 737, you know, living in a suite of a hotel and singing for 200,000 people.

it was pretty drastic but i enjoyed it. it was an amazing beginning. a great school of discipline. and up until today, i am benefitting from that. >> larry: you told me during a break that the group doesn't keep -- you don't keep in touch with the group? >> not really. i am sure if we see each other we would say what's up how you doing? give me a hug. but not really. >> larry: ricky performed at the grammys for the first time in 1999. that was the year you did our gala. you sang "the color of life." you got a standing ovation. this was like coming out. watch. ♪ do you really want it do you really want it ♪ ♪ here we go go go go ♪ ♪ tonight's the night ♪ going to celebrate ♪ go all night

>> all right! >> larry: now even though you'd been in the business all that time, that made you what you call an overnight sensation. right? >> maybe here in the united states. for the anglo market. because that -- in 1999, i released the album and that album in the united states was really -- i think it was already three times platinum in the u.s. but the anglo market didn't know who i was. and that was an amazing platform for me. >> larry: so you were always big in the latino market? >> since 1984 because of the band and when i released my first solo, it was successful. >> larry: but it was the grammys that made you, right? >> in the united states. in the united states. because with that album, the one that i got the grammy for that

evening, i was already almost a year on a world tour. it was amazing because i was performing in delhi, india, tokyo and singapore and sydney with a spanish album. in new delhi, i did a stadium with a spanish album. it was a very beautiful year for me. but definitely i'm very grateful to, you know, obviously the grammys because it was like the next level. >> larry: as we go to break we'll have ricky ask our viewers at cnn espanol to stay with us. so you do the break. >> in spanish? [ speaking in spanish ] ♪ another dollar ♪ daylight comes [ dogs barking ] ♪ i'm on my way ♪ another day ♪ another dollar ♪ working my whole life away

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♪ >> larry: ricky martin is the guest. the book is "me." tell me about this relationship with justice sotomayor. >> well, what an honor. i didn't even know how to start. i received a phone call from her office inviting me to that very

special moment when she was, you know, being sworn in. >> larry: why you? >> i don't know but i'm not going ask. i was honored. i was honored by the detailing of it. it was a great moment an i just sent her my book. we had a beautiful conversation. she talked to me about her struggles when she went to college as a hispanic woman. years ago. and i told her about my grandmother who also went to college in the united states back in the 1940s and how intense it was for a hispanic woman and it was a very beautiful full of respect relationship that we have. >> larry: how did your grandmother come to go to college in america? >> she wanted to do her masters and she went to boston in the '60s. she hopped on a plane and said it is time to just keep on studying. now that i was, you know, that i

was talking to justice sotomayor about it, i was like, wow, my grandmother was a very special woman. she became a senior professor and wrote many books, a very, very passionate woman. very intense and i read wrote about her in my book because i'm definitely very proud of her. >> larry: you ought to be. we get a lot of questions posted via facebook, one of your favorite things. would you get married? >> id get m would get married. that's -- that's why i want to have that option, larry. there are many countries around the world where same-sex marriage is a right. >> larry: not puerto rico? >> not in puerto rico, unfortunately. and not in many states in america. >> larry: why don't you go somewhere if you are really in love with this man, you could go somewhere?

>> we could go to spain or argentina but why can't i do it in my country where the laws are, you know, protecting me? i can go to spain. i have many friends in spain and make it beautiful and symbolic. that i can do in the backyard of my house. i want to have that option. i don't want to be a second-class citizen anymore. i pay my taxes. why can't i have that right? we're not talking about getting married now. that's not part of our conversations. >> larry: would your partner like to have children? would he like to -- >> maybe. maybe. all i know is that he loves my children. and my children love him. it feels very beautiful. >> larry: what's the part about fatherhood you like the most? >> the love. when my -- when my child tell

me, papa, tiamo, you know, i melt. and they tell me every other hour. and it feels amazing. >> larry: they own you? >> oh, yeah. before i used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. now i ask permission to my children to leave the house. they own the house. >> larry: what are you going to do when you tour? >> they already have their passports. they are coming with me. everywhere. a lot of people say children need stability. their stability is to be with daddy and that is going to be what's normal for them. to grow up -- >> larry: how will you tell them about what's normal on the outside world, though, and they have a father and don't have a mother? >> well, when they ask me i will say every family is different. every family is very particular. i would say that there are families with a mom and a dad and there are families with two

moms and families with three moms and right now it's about the love that we have among each other and you have to walk through life with pride and happy and honored to be part of a modern family. >> larry: i will talk about it with honesty. that's the way it will be. >> larry: there are rumors that ricky is headed to broadway. we will ask about that next. 's " and that's what started it. exxonmobil and synthetic genomics have built a new facility to identify the most productive strains of algae. algae are amazing little critters. they secrete oil, which we could turn into biofuels. they also absorb co2. we're hoping to supplement the fuels that we use in our vehicles, and to do this at a large enough scale to someday help meet the world's energy demands. one way i can take care of my engine? take care of your engine at and it'll go far.ale

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i brought you from the hospital the day you sprained your ankle. >> yes, you did. you were so kind and patient. >> that's my job. >> larry: that was ricky martin looking like moses on "general hospital." you were on "general hospital"? >> i was on "general hospital." it was a very intense moment of my life. very beautiful moment of mine. >> larry: a one-time appearance? you were a regular? >> two and a half years. maybe three. >> larry: who did you play? >> miguel. i was a bartender/orderly in the hospital. >> larry: and you had romances with nurses? >> i had romances, yes. with libby. there was a romance with -- who else? >> larry: all right. any truth to the rumors about "evita"? a lot of broadway hits are coming back. if "evita" comes back would you be interested?

>> it's a fact. i am going be part of it. >> larry: that is done deal? >> this is a done deal. 2012. i'm really happy. i had the opportunity to do "les miserables" and i always said i need to go back to broadway. my agent said let's work on something and "evita" was a part and i will do cha. i am really looking forward to it. i can't wait. >> larry: who will be evita? >> elaina rogers. she is an amazing singer and amazing actress. it will be beautiful. next year i'm going to work on my tour. i'm going to be -- hopefully going around the world with my tour and then i will focus entirely on broadway. because it is one of my passions. to have every night to be in front of an audience and you have to sweat to get a standing ro vags. that is something that turns me on, really. >> larry: who did you play in "les miserables"?

the hero? >> yeah. >> larry: and every night repeating the same thing? >> every night you find something different. that be the silence of the audience or something in the character. something in the stage that will trigger something different every night. it's beautiful. >> larry: how do you look at where you are now, ricky? how did you assess yourself? the book is out. you're starting a tour out. you're out-out. you're going to be in "evi the a." i mean -- >> i am a father. >> larry: twins. >> beautiful, healthy boys. nothing but gratitude. life as it is at the moment is balanced and i don't want to sound cliche-ish but i am only being honest. no masks, nothing. i am in a really good place spiritually, mentally, physically, and i am ready to do more. it's very, very beautiful internal strength that i have gotten. >> larry: how's your mother?

>> my mother is amazing. unl, for ten years i have been telling her, mom, miami, come and visit her. now all of the sudden she lives in miami because the babies are there. i have an amazing relationship with my parents. >> larry: is your dad still living? >> yes. my father is a psychologist, retired. he lives in puerto rico. yeah. really nice. >> larry: you have an amazing life. i mean, you have -- >> i can't complain. larry, you know, you have your ups an downs and everybody goes through dark moments in their lives. >> larry: what was your darkest? >> my darkest probably that -- you know. >> larry: living a -- >> well, trying to find myself. trying to really accept who i was and not be afraid and/or ashamed of what my emotions were about. it really was a struggle.

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guest. book is "me." you do a lot of philanthropic work. the ricky martin foundation, an activist against human trafficking. what got you into that? >> many years ago i was invited by my colleague, someone that was building an orphanage in calcutta, india and he said come and check it out. i hopped in a plane and went to calcutta to see what was going on there and he said come on, let's go out on the street and rescue girls and i'm like okay, let's rescue girls. and then we brought girls that were from the ages of 4 to 7, and he told me. you see girls like them could become preys for human trafficking, an i'm like what does that mean, literally? he goes, you know, children are being forced into prostitution and i'm like what are you talking about? she's 4 years old. 7 and 9.

yes. men pay for their virginity. i went crazy, larry. i -- i went back home and i started doing research about human trafficking, and hi no idea about the magnitude. i said now i know about this. i can't be silent about this because it would be like allowing it to happen, and i went to washington, d.c., and i started meeting with amazing activists, people who are my mentors today, and -- and i'm doing my part, a little bit. there's so much that needs to be done. >> larry: i understand also that you -- you went to thailand after the tsunami and haiti after the earthquake. >> yes. >> larry: and that these experiences affected you a great deal. >> well, that's what happens. traffickers take advantage of situations like that because children become orphans or semi-orphans and they are vulnerable and they go and they kidnap the children so i -- i went there and i said this could be happening right now.

media, listen to me. this could be happening right now so let's be aware, and i had the opportunity to meet the younger survivor baby wave. baby wade was a monday old and he was in the hospital being protected by the nurses because in five days, five different men went to the hospital saying that's my nevphew. that is my son. >> larry: what are they going to do with a baby? >> you know, human trafficking. you -- to be raped or for -- or for organs, or for false adoption. human trafficking is terrible. it's the slavery of the new era. >> larry: we'll have ricky read another passage from the book "me" right after this. alka-selt! [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus rushes relief for all-over achy colds. the official cold medicine of the u.s. ski team. alka-seltzer plus.

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♪ ♪ shake your bon-bon ♪ up in the himalaya ♪ go round the world in a day ♪ don't say no, shake it my way ♪ >> larry: all right. want to read from the end of the book. the book is "me." >> yeah. okay. it says throughout these pages i've shown myself exactly as i am, without censorship. the truth is never easy to pin down. especially when it's a matter of personal truth, which is why we'll always continue -- why i will always continue on with my

search, my spiritual path for the rest of my days. it is this constant search that will always bring me about intense emotions. it teaches me how to challenge myself, question myself and always push forward, but the most important thing, and what inspires me the most is that this book can help to inspire other people to face their fears and to push forward and their lives as well, and that for me is the greatest gift of all. >> larry: looking as you look retrospectively now, should you have come out sooner? >> like -- like i've said, larry, i wish i knew how good it was going to feel. i would have done it ten years ago, but i guess i had to go through my spiritual search, my spiritual path to get to conclusions and be able to be comfortable enough to look at myself in the mirror and say everything is going to be fine. you're a good person and -- and god doesn't make mistakes.

>> larry: were you surprised at how well your parents handled it? >> my parents are amazing. i was very lucky because i know it's not everyone's case. >> larry: got to be nervous about that though? >> i was nervous but, you know, in my case my mom asked me. okay, half of the work is done. yes, mom, and then she gave me a hug, and she told me that i love you, and then my father, he told me i just want you to be happy, son. go ahead and live life to the fullest, but that was not enough for me. it still took me a long time to make it -- make it public, but it feels amazing, and i'm -- i've never felt better. >> larry: all right. the tour starts when? >> march. >> larry: march. >> in puerto rico, and then we'll come to the united states. we'll do latin america, hopefully europe and asia, australia and new zealand. it's a long tour. >> larry: and then "evita" will come to broadway when, the fall of 2012? >> no, it will be spring 2012. >> larry: not far away. >> not far away. we're almost there. we're already dealing with a schedule of, you know, two