Freedom (Image by Nicola Formichetti for V)

Sam Smith is opening up, and who better to open up to than Sarah Jessica Parker?! That's when you know you've made it as a gay man in entertainment, when V hires SJP to pump you.

In the interview, Smith talks about the ups and downs of fame, and of having to endure media spankings when he said or did things people misconstrued:

Trump once used a cringey pickup line on Brooke Shields, Rex Tillerson once called Trump exactly what he is, Cher's on the Trump-as-Marie-Antoinette train and there's a great new song and video featuring Jane Wiedlin.

Those items plus THAT pic of Sam Smith kissing his presumed new boyfriend, after the jump ...