Hollywood Producer Left Gay Life for God

Published: November 4, 2024

Hollywood Producer Left Gay Life for God

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Former Hollywood producer Becket Cook recently shared how God changed his life with a crowd at Liberty University.

The author of “Love Transformation: A Gay Man’s Amazing Story,” Becket Cook, recently shared how God changed his life with a crowd at Liberty University.

“So, 15 years ago I was a gay atheist living in Hollywood, and then I had a very unexpected encounter with God, and it changed my life forever. endless, but I will start at the beginning,” he explained. “When I was very young in elementary school, I started to realize that I was attracted to people of the same sex, and back in the 1980s or 1970s, being gay or homosexual it was despicable. It’s not like today.”

I grew up in Dallas, Texas, and … you don’t say your name,” the A Change of Love: The Amazing Story of a Gay Man said the secretary. So it was very restricted. So I had to live this double life even in elementary school…in seventh and eighth grade, I hung out with girls and was tight, but inside, I knew I had this deep secret, and darkness, and things changed a lot when I went there. when I went to high school at a Jesuit boys’ school.”

There, he met a like-minded second-year student, and they became good friends. They started frequenting gay bars even though they were high school juniors. Cook would have “boring” girlfriends throughout high school but led a double life.

“It wasn’t until after college that homosexuality became my full identity,” Cook said.

Kgaitsadie Cook finally asked him if he knew he was gay, he told her, and he told his whole family.

“I remember walking into the kitchen that first night. My mother was sitting at the kitchen table,” he recalled. “My mother and I got along very well. I went into the kitchen, and she started crying, and I knew what she was crying about, so I said…’What’s wrong, mom?’ and he said, ‘Well, I heard you’re gay,’ and…this was 1992. So HIV and AIDS was pretty much a death sentence at that time. She was scared, but I tried to calm her fear, and said, “Mom, don’t worry about me.” I will be fine, and I said, ‘This is who I am. It’s not a big deal.’ So that was the last time we talked about it.”

Cook soon moved to LA and became a production designer. She was immersed in the world of beauty, and often visited extravagant parties and houses like Drew Barrymore.

Becket Cook has had all the success anyone could want in a Hollywood career…

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Then, one night at a Paris fashion week after party, Cook suddenly felt useless, as if his life had no purpose. Six months later, he was in a coffee shop and saw a group of people studying the Bible. He asked them a few questions and began to think about whether the way he was living was wrong.

“They invited me to their church the following Sunday, and what surprised me the most was my response to them… I had a light like does God exist? I mean there’s little chance he can do it and what if homosexuality is a sin, and what if I’ve built my whole life on a false foundation and I don’t know if that’s a possibility.”

He said: “So the next Sunday I wake up, and I wake up, and I think I’m going to go to this church. “I was going to the Evangelical church for the first time. I didn’t know what to expect.”

The pastor preached from Romans 7, and Cook responded to “everything” he said.

“I am like this gospel. This i Good news, and I was impressed with the study. I was literally sitting on the edge of my seat, and when he finished the lesson, he said there was another 30 minutes of worship, and he said there are people on the side of the auditorium if you want prayer for anything,” he explained. “That was another moment where I was like, ‘Oh, should I go there? If I do, people might stare at me. It’s embarrassing.’”

But he gathered courage and went to someone who would pray with him.

“His prayer was full of love and care, so I went back to my seat and sat down. The rest were standing and singing for another 25 minutes. I sat down and as soon as I sat down, the Holy Spirit… like Isaiah in the temple when he saw the holiness of God, I released myself. and I started grunting and grunting,” he shared.

From then on, Cook’s life changed. He understood that he was sinning and immediately changed his lifestyle.

He says: “I was so happy when I met the king of the universe, Jesus that it was a strange thing.

“I haven’t looked back and…my old friends were saying you know, ‘Isn’t it unfair that you can’t have a partner, have a boyfriend like you?’ Like, I don’t understand it…You’re going to be alone for the rest of your life and I’m like ‘First of all, I’m not alone. I’m in a relationship with the king of the universe and it’s the best relationship I’ve ever been in,’” he said.

Cook now spends his time speaking and sharing his story around the US and sharing the stories and experiences of others on his YouTube channel, “The Becket Cook Show.”

In his YouTube episode, Cook explained that his mother prayed for him in private, though he didn’t talk about it.

“Instead of trying to hit me, hit me, or push me into the Kingdom, he prayed this prayer in silence,” Cook explained on his YouTube channel. “It was a complete miracle that I never got HIV. The fact that God has protected me… is because of this…. because of my mother’s prayer.”