Of course, you know Bowen Yang from Saturday Night Live.

Bowen Yang wearing a patterned suit and round glasses, posed on a formal event backdrop

Taylor Hill / FilmMagic

You probably also know that Bowen is openly gay — but when he was younger, there were some early struggles with coming out to his family.

Bowen Yang smiles on the SAG Awards red carpet, wearing a classic black suit with a white shirt

Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic

In an interview with TODAY’s Willie Geist that’s set to air tomorrow, the comedian and actor revealed that his parents had him undergo conversion therapy as a teenager. Conversion therapy is currently banned in 23 US states — including Colorado, the state in which he was raised — as well as in Washington, DC.

Bowen Yang smiling at the BFI Flare Film Festival, wearing a patterned sweater and glasses

Jordan Peck / Jordan Peck|Getty Images for ABA

Bowen explained that his parents had given him an ultimatum: If he underwent conversion therapy, he would be allowed to attend New York University and live with his sister in NYC. “Those poor people did not realize it’s one of the gayest schools in the country,” he laughed. “I just knew I had to live there.”

Bowen Yang in a formal suit with a bow tie stands smiling on a red carpet

Christopher Polk / Variety via Getty Images

“And so I kind of played along and I kind of just humored them and myself into seeing what it was, not knowing that it was ultimately very painful and detrimental,” he said. “And there was a lot of healing that happened after that.”

Bowen Yang in a velvet suit speaks animatedly on stage, gesturing with hands

Rich Polk / Penske Media via Getty Images

Bowen also explained that he didn’t so much directly come out to his parents, as it happened that they “just sort of stumbled upon something, and they were like, ‘Oh, we didn’t realize this is what we were dealing with. Where we come from, this doesn’t happen,'” he explained. “That was sort of their concept of it. And so I give them a lot of grace for that, because they just have no context for it.”

Bowen Yang in a stylish leather jacket with floral embroidery, smiling at an event

JC Olivera / WWD via Getty Images

Bowen also explained that he “really didn’t get to work through” his identity as a queer person before his parents found out. “I think I probably wasn’t brave enough back then to express that, or to package it in a way that they could understand,” he explained, “because it felt completely foreign to them, and it was completely foreign to them.”

Bowen Yang on red carpet wearing glasses, a black blazer, white shirt with a scarf tie. Netflix and Screen Actors Guild Awards backdrop

Frazer Harrison / WireImage

“Identity is this really fickle thing,” he added. “It’s not something that you arrive at until much later in life, I think. I didn’t really get a grasp on who I was until like, two years ago.”

Bowen Yang in bold suit with scarf, standing in front of "SNL" backdrop, smiling

Sean Zanni / Patrick McMullan via Getty Images

You can tune in to TODAY on NBC tomorrow morning for the full interview.