According to Knight, they bonded over the shared experience of becoming suddenly famous as teenagers.
“It was nice to relate to somebody who was in the same boat,” he said.
She helped ground me and it was a good escape from the rigors of touring."
While he was ultimately happy to have come to that realization about his sexuality, their breakup was difficult.
In fact, he recalled being “so afraid … like what if somebody sees?”
While he wasn’t hiding his sexuality in his private life, he hadn’t come out publicly.
“I didn’t want to [come out],” he said.
“It was crazy.”
Another factor was that he’d started to experience panic attacks, which grew increasingly severe and more frequent.
“We performed in front of 30,000 people every night, and I had lots of anxiety attacks.
Those attacks had a big impact on my determining to leave the entertainment industry,” Knight toldPeoplein 2000.
“I felt that we had done it long enough,” Knight told People.
“I was the first to jump ship.
The others were angry at first, but they understood.”
“When he said flip houses,' I thought, Is this some mafia thing?
We’re going to go in there and rob these people?
It was a term I’d never heard,” Knight said.
Since then, Knight estimated that he’d renovated and flipped more than 100 homes.
“It was standing since the 1700s.
I wouldn’t tear it down.
Now this thing will be around for another two or three hundred years,” he told the Times.
“I always get these romantic notions.”
“I go online and I order trees not even knowing what I was ordering,” he explained.
As he toldEntertainment Tonight, his initial motivation had to do with his love of animals.
“Just seeing how animals are raised and the slaughterhouses freaked me out,” he admitted.
Initially, Knight attempted to go full vegan, but abandoned that idea almost immediately.
“That lasted three days!”
Once he removed meat from his diet, a chronic digestive issue immediately vanished.
Meanwhile, the health benefits he experienced from vegetarianism were accompanied by an added bonus.
It was crazy," he recalled.
“It’s going to be interesting.”
Rodriguez agreed, pointing out that their respective schedules kept them apart quite a bit.
“I think that space has been good for us,” he added.
“I think every couple need space or you could get on each other’s nerves.”
In 2022, Knight revealed that he and Rodriguez had quietly tied the knot.
“It’s coming,” he promised.
“It’s great,” he exclaimed.
“We’ve been together 14 years.
It’s nice to find love.
We found each other later on in life, which makes it even better.
We both understand each other.”
“Had an accident on the bus.
Banged up my face badly, broke my nose and got a few stitches ?
#FightClub,” he wrote in a since-deleted tweet, as reported byABC News.
He also issued a post viaInstagramthat detailed all the damage by including a photo of his banged-up face.
He followed that up withanother Instagram picof his injuries.
As Knight revealed, he had no intention of backing down.
“But I will keep fighting.”
Meanwhile, members of Knight’s family also chipped in to lend a hand.
