“I was just raised in the church,” Mallory explained in a video capturing his speech. “My parents divorced when I was 10 years old, and honestly I didn’t have a father figure.”
And the Nashville local recalled his time on TV as a notable part of his path to discovering he identified as straight in 2024.
“I lived a gay lifestyle for about 20 years. I was on a television show, The Real World, and I came out as a gay Christian,” he continued. “But God really pulled me out of that lifestyle a year ago.”
Mallory, who was on three seasons of The Challenge with his final appearance in 2011, went on to detail how his subconscious played a role in the development.
As he put it, “I would have a nightmare that my car was being broken into. I had a nightmare that I gave my title to someone else.”