PRAYED THE GAY AWAY

‘The Challenge’ Star Says He’s No Longer Gay After Finding God

Davis Mallory said God pulled him “out of that lifestyle a year ago.”

Davis Mallory identified as a “Gay Christian” on MTV’s The Challenge, but has dropped the label, saying God “pulled [him] out of that lifestyle a year ago.” Mallory, 42, said in a video shared to Instagram on Monday that he was convinced to abandon the “Gay lifestyle” after multiple dreams. He shared his testimony ahead of performing his song, “Baptized.” “[God] started speaking to me in my dreams and showing me,” he said at a church in Kona, Hawaii. “The spiritual warfare that I was going to, every time I returned to sin, I would have a nightmare that a car, my car was being broken into.” Mallory, who rose to fame as a contestant on The Real World: Denver, said “every time [he] returned to sin [he] would have a nightmare.” Mallory has long been open about being gay. In a 2013 Tedx presentation, he said he came out in 2005, but his “very strong Christian family” labeled it as a choice and sent him to conversion therapy. “I couldn’t change, but a lot of people thought I could, and I tried,” he said. Mallory went to college on the pre-med track, giving up his dreams of becoming a Christian musician, and hid his gay identity until an audition for the MTV game show turned into a role. Mallory went on to compete in The Inferno 3, The Duel II, and Rivals following his success in 2006 on The Real World: Denver.