United Kingdom, April 12 -- Bowen Yang has spoken about the "painful and detrimental" experience of going to conversion therapy.

The 'Saturday Night Live' star shared how his parents enrolled him in the controversial therapy when he was a teenager after they found out he was gay.

In a preview of 'NBC's Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist', Bowen shared: ""I 'came out' in a sense that my parents just sort of stumbled upon something, and they were like 'Oh, we didn't know this is what we were dealing with,'.

"I give them a lot of grace for that because they just had no context for it."

Bowen, 34, went on to explain that his parents told him if he went to conversion therapy, he could then go to New York University and live with his older si...