Watch: Molly Shannon Opens Up on Discovering Her Father Was Closeted

"Saturday Night Live" alum Molly Shannon is making the media rounds to promote her new memoir "Hello, Molly!" and sharing some sentimental tokens of wisdom in the process.

In an interview with Howard Stern, Shannon shed light on how her father's struggles with his sexuality contributed to their family's struggles.

Shannon reportedly found out shortly before her father's death that he was a closeted gay man, and the news made her heart break.

"I felt so much compassion," said Shannon. "Kind of the pieces of the story all coming together. It's tragic."

Shannon said she had an idea that her father was gay when he was visiting New York City after she ended her iconic run on "SNL."

He met "a straight college boy" while drinking at a bar at Grand Central Station and showed up drunk with him to Shannon's apartment in the West Village.

Shannon said she was so angry that she made him stay in a hotel, and then she called her manager Steven Levy, a gay man who also lost a parent when he was young. Levy had also formed a close connection with Shannon's father over the years.

"Steven, in that conversation when I complained about my dad, said, 'You're being too hard on him Molly, you're being too hard on him. You don't understand, he's given up so much for you girls, so much for you and Mary,'" she explained to Stern. "And he kept repeating, and I go, 'What are you saying? Are you saying he's gay?'

"And he was like, 'I don't want to tell you! He's going to tell you.' And I was like, 'Oh, my God.' I couldn't believe it."

The whole ordeal sounds heartbreaking for everyone involved. Watch the clip below.