The ride is just beginning.
Hours before a two-hour special was set to air on ABC, a new teaser showed a candid Bruce Jenner admitting that this year “is going to be quite a ride.”
Sporting shoulder-length straight hair, the gender-bending 65 year old sits speaking with Diane Sawyer in a new clip released Friday morning on “Good Morning America.”
Sawyer, who says the anticipated interview was compiled from days of discussions with the champion decathlete, asks Jenner what he would ask himself as the interviewer.
“If I were you, what question would you ask me?” he says aloud as he contemplates the question. “Are you going to be OK?” Jenner says after a pause. “Ya know?”
Sawyer complies, asking him the question directly.
“Yeah,” he responds, leaning his cheek on his hand while sitting on a couch. “I hope I’m going to be OK. I feel like I’m going to be OK.
“2015 is going to be quite a ride. Quite a ride,” he says with a smile.
In a previous teaser clip, Jenner described his future as “an emotional roller-coaster,” saying, “but somehow I’m going to get through it.”
Interest in the former athletic star’s rumored transformation from man to woman has gained steam in recent days after he was pictured wearing what appeared to be a sports bra and then, days later, a striped, floor-length dress outside his Malibu, Calif. home.
Sawyer has been coy about what exactly the two-hour special will entail.
“I think we can all agree that some stories should only be told by the person who lives them, and he wants to speak directly tonight, so I’m going to let him say first what he wants to say,” Sawyer said on “GMA.”
Sawyer revealed that she spoke to Jenner’s siblings and children and that the story, at its heart, is about “family love.”
