. ♪ liar ♪ that's what you are >> reporter: for 39 years, chely wright says she was a liar.s that near lly tore her apa. >> my truth is that i'm gay and i hid my homosexuality my entire career. >> reporter: she didn't think country could handle her secret. >> i would read liner moments as if they were bedtime stories. nowhere in there did i read anything about a homosexual. ♪ wish me away >> reporter: they tried to wish it away. inviting a heartbreaking prayer. ♪ wish me away >> just take it away. please, please, please god, don't let me be gay.

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. ♪ liar ♪ that's what you are >> reporter: for 39 years, chely wright says she was a liar.that near lly tore her apa. >> my truth is that i'm gay and i hid my homosexuality my entire career. >> reporter: she didn't think country could handle her secret. >> i would read liner moments as if they were bedtime stories. nowhere in there did i read anything about a homosexual. ♪ wish me away >> reporter: they tried to wish it away. inviting a heartbreaking prayer. ♪ wish me away >> just take it away. please, please, please god, don't let me be gay. >> reporter: it didn't work. neither did dating men, like country star brad paisley. >> we were very compatible in a lot of ways. ♪ single white female ♪ >> reporter: even while reaching the pinnacle of success, the pressure of her double life became overwhelming. she thought about suicide. >> i couldn't, for the life of me, work out a plan to make the pieces of my life go together. >> reporter: she decided the truth was the only way. for her own survival, and as an example for the lonely kids who might be reading liner notes. >> i fee