Ricky Martin wishes he could come out as gay for a second time.
The 42-year-old singer revealed his sexuality to the world for the first time in 2010, but he's admitted he'd happily go through it all again because the experience was therapeutic and made him feel as though a weight had been lifted from his shoulders.
He said: "It felt amazing. I wish I could come out again because that moment felt very blissful.
"It really feels amazing and then when it happens you realise all your fears were in your head. The amount of support I received ... from the media, obviously my fans and my family was amazing.
"Unfortunately, society just pushes us to believe that our feelings are evil."
The 'Livin' La Vida Loca' hitmaker confessed it was his twin sons Matteo and Valentino - who were born through a surrogate mother in 2008 - that convinced him to come out, as he wanted them to know the truth and be proud of him as a person when they're older.
Speaking to KIIS FM, he said: "When I held them in my arms for the first time ... it's about honesty and transparency and I want my kids to grow up in an open household where they don't have to lie about their daddy.
"Eventually they're going to go to school and they're going to be asked and I just want them to see it as my dad is the coolest man on the face of and he loves me and I love my dad. It doesn't matter who he is or where he comes from or what he's made of."

Oprah Winfrey is being sued by a nuclear physicist.
Charles D. Goodman, an 86-year-old scientist, has filed a lawsuit in San Miguel County District Court against the media mogul, arguing that a plot of land she purchased near Telluride, south-west Colorado, denies people access to public trails.
Oprah, 60, bought the 66 acres of land in Mountain Village - which was originally owned by the U.S Forest Service - for $10.85 million in March this year.
Since then, Mr. Goodman argues that Oprah's company have ignored the Forest Service's clause that public access must be included in all trades of the land and access to the trails is no longer available to Goodman and his family and other residents, access they have enjoyed for almost 30 years.
Goodman told The Denver Post newspaper: "I don't care if Oprah is a neighbour, but if she is going to cut off access to trails, I don't find that acceptable."
Speaking to TMZ, he stated: "I have no objection to Oprah to building a house. But I do not like the idea of being blocked off by gates and fences."
A representative for Oprah - who also owns expansive properties in California, New Jersey, Chicago, Florida, Hawaii and Antigua - has since released a statement saying that she hopes they can reach an amicable conclusion.
Wendy Luckenbill, who works for the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) and Oprah's company Yellow Brick Road, said: "Yellow Brick Road CO LLC will continue to work with the residents of the Ski Ranches HOA to enable them to have reasonable access over portions of the company's recently acquired property for recreational trail use. It is our hope that we can work together on a usage plan that is mutually agreeable."

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi are spending $35,000 on a home spa.
The couple are reportedly planning to update their love nest in Holmby Hills, California with a luxury spa so they can get pampered from the privacy of their own home.
According to RadarOnline.com, construction plans submitted to the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety show that Ellen intends to install a massive 15 foot Jacuzzi on the top floor of her enviable 13,400 square foot pad.
The costly spa will come complete with glass walls, a seating are and an overhead skylight.
The 'Ellen DeGeneres Show' chat show host sold her Beverly Hills home to Ryan Seacrest last August before snapping up her current property with her wife Portia for $40 million in January,
They splashed out $60,000 on remodelling the kitchen, bathroom and adding a guard house to protect her house from prying eyes.
Despite spending so much cash on their new home, Ellen and Portia's peace and quiet has reportedly been disturbed by a ghostly presence.
A source previously said: "The house has been remodeled, so Ellen thought it would have no trace of the former owner. But she was wrong. Within a few nights of moving in Ellen started hearing random noises including footsteps and doors opening and closing.
"Then, in the middle of the night she heard a woman's faint cry. Ellen in totally freaked out. She hasn't had a solid night's sleep ever since she moved in."

Kate Moss reportedly flirted with Prince William at a charity fundraiser.
The 40-year-old supermodel came face-to-face with the prince at a star-studded fundraiser the 31-year-old royal hosted on May 13 at Windsor Castle on Tuesday (13.05.14) and a TV crew caught their private conversation on camera.
Kate smiled at the prince and said: "Where's your wife? She's not here?"
William then confirmed Duchess Catherine was absent from the event, to which the British beauty tilted her head to one side and gazed into the prince's eyes, before smiling and replying: "Such a shame".
A host of famous faces, including Cate Blanchett, Emma Watson and Cara Delevingne, attended the event, which was sponsored by Ralph Lauren and held to raise money for the Royal Marsden Hospital.
Helena Bonham Carter also attended and recalled previously meeting the second-in-line to the throne when he was with Catherine on the island of Mustique before the pair wed in 2011.
After a few drinks, 'The King's Speech' actress managed to gain the confidence to ask whether he'd be godfather to her six-year-old daughter Nell - who she had with director Tim Burton - but he "wisely" refused.
She revealed: "The duke and I met before, along with the duchess, before they were married, when I was staying on Mustique. I got very drunk at one point and I was determined to ask him to be a godfather to my daughter. He quite wisely said no."

Britain's Prince Harry sent his first ever Twitter message today (15.05.14).
The flame-haired royal took to the social media website for the first time to voice his support of the upcoming Invictus Games, a charitable Paralympics-style games for wounded army members.
Harry's tweet was posted to the charity's account, @InvictusLondon.
He wrote: "Hope everyone will get behind #invictusgames. Great opportunity to support and thank the men and women who have given so much. Harry (sic)"
The 29-year-old royal appeared flummoxed while constructing his first tweet during a launch event at BT Tower in London earlier today.
He quipped: "That's why I joined the army, I can't type fast."
Harry joked that London Mayor Boris Johnson would be excited to see him tweet, as he is an avid Twitter user himself.
Invictus Games chairman Keith Mills admitted there were some royal hurdles to overcome before Harry could tweet.
He told the Guardian newspaper: "Members of the royal family don't normally tweet, I don't think they've ever tweeted. But they were comfortable and he was thrilled to do it, so we have made a bit of history this morning."

L.A. Reid has confirmed a Justin Bieber and Michael Jackson collaboration.
The 58-year-old producer behind Michael Jackson's posthumous album 'Xscape' is planning something "really special" involving vocals from the late King of Pop and the 20-year-old singer.
Justin was originally supposed to feature on the track 'Slave 2 The Rhythm' as part of Michael's latest offering until it was inadvertently leaked, causing the collaboration to be dropped from 'Xscape'.
L.A. told Access Hollywood: "'Slave 2 The Rhythm' didn't include him [Justin] per my direction. That was something that was done separate and apart from me and it was leaked. If it hadn't been leaked it would have been featured but it sort of took the wrong turn.
"But you know what, we are going to revisit that and do something really special with Justin and Michael. I'm pretty sure."
L.A. signed Justin to his label Island Records at the tender age of 15 and admitted he feels "protective" over the young star, who was arrested for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) and drag-racing in Florida in January.
He said: "Justin is my guy. You know that I signed Justin so I felt a loyalty and I feel like I should protect him, that's my relationship with him."

OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder got emotional working with Adele.
The singer-songwriter and producer has penned hits for the likes of Beyonce and Leona Lewis, but says nothing has affected him as much as hearing the results of his studio session with Adele, her moving ballad 'Turning Tables'.
Ryan told the new issue of Notion magazine: "It's easy to look back at your most successful singles and call them your favourites, but I knew there was something special when we came up with 'Turning Tables'.
"After we worked on the song I went back to my hotel room in London and I texted her saying, 'I'm listening to your demo and I'm getting choked up.' She said, 'I've been crying my eyes out for the last 20 minutes.'
"We both thought we'd nailed it. It doesn't matter that it wasn't a radio hit. In a perfect world, the two would coincide. Most artists would be lying if they didn't say that was the goal."
As well as working on new music with his band, the 'Apologize' hitmaker would love to team up with Florence and the Machine star Florence Welch to explore a more experimental sound.
Ryan explained: "For three years mine and Florence Welch's managers have been trying to get our calendars to align. We're always on the opposite sides of the world.
"I really want to do something with her - I think we can crack something that she hasn't done and that I haven't done. I really think it could be huge."
OneRepublic's new single 'Love Runs Out' is available for iTunes pre-order, released on July 27.

Ben Mitchell will return to 'EastEnders' - but a new actor will play the role. The murderous offspring of soap icon Phil Mitchell will be reintroduced on the show later this year, BBC bosses confirm to Digital Spy, but producers are looking to recast ...

Meera Syal found returning to 'Goodness Gracious Me' like "putting on a pair of comfortable slippers".
The hit BBC Two sketch show - which made stars of Meera, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Nina Wadia - will return for a one-off special later this month to celebrate the channel's 50th year on air, and Meera felt as though no time had passed when the cast reunited.
She said: "It did feel like putting on an old pair of comfortable slippers, getting back together with everybody."
'Goodness Gracious Me' aired for five years from 1996 to 2001 and the stars feel the show is still relevant as no other show has filled its role in entertaining British-Asian audiences.
Meera said: "There has been nothing else like it since, so we didn't feel that there was loads of stuff we had to worry had come in between that we might repeat."
Sanjeev added: "Sketch comedy over the last 10 years has gone very surreal. You can write a sketch about a guy who's turning into a moose, who has oven mitts for hands. Our stuff was always reflecting society, as well as being funny and satirical. I don't think there's been anything quite like that on TV [since]."
There'll be plenty of laughs when the hit show returns, and there may even be enough footage for another episode as the stars wrote and filmed more sketches than they needed.
Sanjeev told ITV's 'Lorraine': "It's a half-hour show and we had just short of an hour's material that we shot. Once we got together and started writing, we found that the ideas flowed."
The one-off special of 'Goodness Gracious Me' airs on BBC Two on Monday 26 May.

Danny Dyer is surprised to be considered sexy as he's "growing a pair of t*ts".
The 36-year-old actor is up for Sexiest Male at this year's British Soap Awards - for his role as pub landlord Mick Carter in 'EastEnders' - and he admits the nod is amusing as he doesn't think much of his appearance.
He quipped: "As for Sexiest Male - I'm pushing 40, I've got a beer belly and I'm growing a pair of t*ts. So to every pot-bellied man out there, there's hope for you all!"
Danny is nominated for several awards at the bash, including Best Actor and Spectacular Scene for the moving scene between Mick and his son Johnny (Sam Strike) in which the youngster comes out as gay.
The former movie hardman is "proud" to represent 'EastEnders', but is slightly nervous about being nominated.
He told Digital Spy: "I'm passionate about it and I'd want to win it for us as a collective, rather than as a personal thing.
"I'm quite excited and slightly anxious about it. I think the anxiety comes from the fact that I've only been in 'EastEnders' for six months, so to be nominated for Best Actor is slightly overwhelming."
Danny also reveals he feels guilty that he was nominated for Best Actor over Adam Woodyatt, who has acted out an array of emotions following the death of his character Ian Beale's daughter, Lucy.
The actor added: "I think his big episodes just aired a little bit too late in the season, but he definitely deserves an award over me and I'll be the first to admit that."

Emily Blunt broke Tom Cruise's spirit.
The 'Edge of Tomorrow' stars were shooting scenes for their new film in a small studio while wearing heavy body suits and harnesses, and she's admitted she forced the famously enthusiastic actor to admit he was struggling too.
She said: "I remember this day we were getting dropped out of this drop ship and the set was so small and we were boiling in these huge suits and there was no space and people were crashing into each other.
"And we're hanging in these harnesses with the full weight of the 85 pound suit and our body weight on our groin, which is not fun, and we're just hanging there and I look at Tom and I can just see that insatiable positivity starting to unravel.
"I looked at him and he was pouring with sweat and I just whispered, 'This really sucks', and he just looked at me and went, 'It's a challenge'. And I said, 'Tom, it sucks!' And he said, 'Alright it sucks!' I broke him. I broke his spirit."
The 31-year-old actress did all her own stunts for the sci-fi film and thinks Cruise, despite being known for always doing his own, also found it difficult to keep up with the action.
Speaking on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live', she said: "I did train a lot. You kind of want to do your own [stunts] as well so that he's [Cruise] not the only one. He was like, 'Em it's going to be hard. You've got to do your own stunts'.
"It was a challenging shoot. The heavy armoured suits, they weighed like between 85 and 100 pounds. His suit weighed about a hundred pounds, and I think this movie might be the hardest movie he's ever done."

Aaron Taylor-Johnson cried when he watched 'Godzilla'.
The 23-year-old actor stars as military man Lieutenant Ford Brody in the science fiction monster film, but he's confessed he was brought to tears by his co-stars' performances.
He said: "The first 10-15 minutes, the performance from Bryan Cranston and Juliette Binoche, I was trying to suppress and hold back tears.
"I didn't know whether I was allowed to cry, I was like, 'This is a monster movie but I can't really stop this!'"
The 'Anna Karenina' star - who is married to his 'Nowhere Boy' director Sam Taylor-Wood - admits he was hoping to watch the film for the first time in privacy, as he gets embarrassed watching himself on-screen.
He told Collider.com: "I preferred to see it just me and my wife but I can never do that without everyone going, 'OK, so you're going to have a screening with the managers and agents', and they're all behind you and you think, 'I just want to watch this on my own'.
"I feel like I just kind of need to digest it for myself."
Taylor-Johnson also revealed that despite initially being sceptical about starring in a remake of 'Godzilla' when he was approached by the director, he couldn't be more proud of the end result.
He added: "I do find it really hard to watch myself but I think, ultimately, I was able to see it in the bigger picture and I was hugely thrilled and happy.
"I'm super proud of this movie and am so happy I sat down with Gareth [Edwards] on that day and said yes."