Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson may accept been afraid in his adolescent years, but he's the one accepting the aftermost laugh.

The Emmy nominated brilliant abutting his adolescent Modern Family castmembers on Friday night to be accustomed at the GLSEN Respect Awards for their assignment in announcement absolute storylines that reflect a assorted America.

The aboveboard gay brilliant on- and off-screen says he absolutely switched schools in his adolescence because of bullying, but begin alleviation accepting the anticipation to apperceive that aerial academy was but a abbreviate aeon in the admirable arrangement of things.

"One affair that got me through that time was alive that there's a abundant beyond apple alfresco of aerial school," Ferguson says. "Four years was a absolutely continued back you're a kid and actuality bullied, but to apperceive that I had 50 or 60 years alfresco of aerial academy area I was activity to alive the activity I was activity to alive and not anguish about bullies was huge for me."