Rugby player's sexuality 'changes' after stroke

A British rugby player has turned gay after having a stroke.

Chris Birch - who weighed 19 stone - suffered the attack after an accident during training and when he woke up his sexuality had changed, so he lost eight stone and retrained to be a hairdresser.

The 26-year-old man - who now lives with his homosexual partner - had proposed to his girlfriend at the time before his stroke, which occurred when he was trying to impress his friends by doing a back flip but he ended up breaking his neck.

Chris told The Sun newspaper: "It sounds strange but when I came round I immediately felt different.

"I wasn't interested in women any more. I was definitely gay.

"I had never been attracted to a man before - I'd never even had any gay friends. But I didn't care about who I was before, I had to be true to my feelings."