On Friday’s episode of Kailyn’s Barely Well-known podcast, the 15-year-old got here out and introduced that he had modified his identify from Issac to Elliott, which was his center identify.

Whereas the podcast episode had been “deliberate out for some time,” the teenager’s plans to come back out on his personal phrases have been derailed after images that confirmed him posing with one other boy at promenade went viral on-line. The images have been posted to somebody’s private Fb web page, not his or his mom’s accounts, and the unfold over fan accounts for the present. The photographs additionally sparked hypothesis about Elliott’s sexuality.

Towards the top of the episode, Elliott and his mother shared their response to the pictures being “leaked.”

“You went to promenade. You have been requested to promenade by a junior, a male,” mentioned Kailyn, who shares Elliott with ex Jo Rivera. “These photos and movies have been leaked. And I obtained residence, [ugly] crying.”

“How have been you feeling if you noticed that every part was leaked?” she requested Elliott, who replied, “I used to be devastated. I additionally ugly-cried earlier than you bought residence.”

He continued, “It was very disappointing as a result of, I imply, no person knew that we have been planning this episode, but it surely’s simply disappointing. Going again to issues being on my phrases, it is, like, even should you thought you knew I used to be homosexual already, it is disappointing that I could not share it on my phrases.”

“The way in which it occurred was simply not okay,” he added.

Kailyn referred to as it a “enormous violation” of privateness, declaring that Elliott is a minor — and he did not share it himself, or the fact star did not have “permission to submit it on [his] behalf.”

“That was actually, actually heartbreaking,” he mentioned.

Elliott added that it isn’t nearly him, however his promenade date as nicely.

“Actually, it isn’t about simply me anymore. It is concerning the people who find themselves in these photos. It is about … their security,” he mentioned, to which Kailyn famous that “possibly they weren’t out but” both, including that the leak put the kids in a “very harmful place.”

“For that on the spot gratification of your self, you leaked photos of minors to have the ability to say that you simply heard it first or that you simply had the knowledge first otherwise you knew it, you referred to as it,” she added.

Elliott famous that the “downside” is that “folks do not perceive that if I do not share it, it should not be on the market.”

Whereas Kailyn mentioned that she likes to present folks “the good thing about the doubt,” she’s discovered that there are “folks in your real-life circle, sadly, that can pray to your downfall.”

Kailyn’s co-host once more reiterated that the podcast episode was deliberate earlier than the leak, and mentioned she was “very glad” Elliott nonetheless wished to share his story.

Kailyn defined that following the images going across the web, Elliott approached her and wished to come back out on social media, however she determined in opposition to it, saying that it made her “nervous.” She mentioned she additionally believed it could have been “exploitative” as a result of folks might have made “cash” off of it.

“If you are going to share your story, then you must be capable to inform your story in your individual phrases,” she mentioned, including that she’s not taking advantage of the podcast, and the cash goes to her son. “You have to be the one benefiting out of your story.”

Elliott once more famous that it was “vital” for him to come back out on his personal phrases, whereas additionally emphasizing that he hopes his story can “encourage” others “who’re in the identical scenario or comparable scenario work by it the most effective that they will.”

“I can also make slightly than it’s a one-minute video, it may be an hour, possibly longer,” he added.

Take heed to the total podcast, right here.

Along with Elliott, Kailyn additionally shares son Lincoln, 11, with ex Javi Marroquin; sons Lux, 7, and Creed, 4, with ex Chris Lopez; and son Rio, 2, and twins Verse and Valley, whom she welcomed in late 2023, with fiancé Elijah Scott.