Tom Daley

As a young diver, Tom Daley never imagined he’d one day feel confident enough to share specifics of his personal life with fans. That changed in 2013, when the British Olympic diver came out as gay in a YouTube video.

Twelve years later, Tom gets even more candid in a new documentary, Tom Daley: 1.6 Seconds. The film finds the now-retired athlete reflecting on his rise to fame, his path toward living as his true self and his relationships with his husband of eight years, screenwriter and filmmaker Dustin Lance Black, and his late father, Robert Daley.

“It’s weird when somebody comes to you and says, ‘We want to make a documentary about your life.’ I was a little bit hesitant to start with, because ... what do I even have to say? What do I want to say?” the Olympian told HuffPost in an interview.

“But the more I got into what was going on beneath the surface when I was growing up ... the fact that my kids are going to be able to understand a bit more about what their papa did ... it felt like therapy.”

Olympian Tom Daley is the subject of a new documentary, Tom Daley: 1.6 Seconds.

Admirers of Tom’s aquatic prowess won’t be disappointed by 1.6 Seconds, the title of which alludes to his gold medal win in the men’s synchronised 10-metre platform at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, held in 2021. While working on the film, director Vaughan Sivell pored through hours of archival footage showing Daley training for childhood competitions and, later, his four Olympic Games.........

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