In an interview with The New York Times, the Saturday Night Live actor revealed that his parents sent him to a specialist who worked in gay conversion therapy after finding "lewd conversations" he had shared with someone on AOL Instant Messenger. "I allowed myself the thought experiment of: 'What if this could work?'" he told the publication about the conversion therapy. "Even though as I read up on it, I was just like, 'Oh, wait, this is all completely crackers.'"