Robert De Niro Remembers His Gay Father - ABC News

Contents:

• DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER
• ROBERT DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER
• ROBERT DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HAVG A GAY FATHER
• ROBERT DE NIRO'S DAD FELT GUILTY ABOUT BEG GAY — SI HIS PERSONAL STGGL
• ROBERT DE NIRO: I WISH I'D SPOKEN TO MY GAY DAD ABOUT HIS SEXUALY
• ROBERT DE NIRO REVEALS DOCUMENTARY THAT HIS FATHER WAS GAY
• ROBERT DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER
• ROBERT DE NIRO REMEMBERS HIS GAY FATHER

DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER

Was gay and private about his sexualy. De Niro’s father was a gay man who divorced De Niro’s mother when the actor was a child.

Chen opened up about the postpartum health plitn an terview wh “CBS Morngs” host Gayle Kg, who revealed the tot’s name and first photo May after gettg the naround om the Osr-wng actor.

ROBERT DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER

Robert De Niro has given the thors of a book about his artist father accs to timate journals wrten by the pater, even though he n’t face readg them journals reveal what the Osr-wng actor scrib as his father’s “mons”, cludg De Niro Sr’s stggle to make enough money and to fd artistic regnn, as well as his anxieti over his mental health and his homosexualy, which broke up his marriage to a fellow artist when their son was a De Niro Sr died 1993, leavg behd four notebooks filled wh his ner thoughts, wrten over 10 years om 1963. ”In one passage, his father wrote of prayg “until I am cured of my mental and emotnal sickns”, addg: “If God don’t want me to be homosexual (about which I have so much guilt), he will fd a woman whom I will love and who will love me.

But I really don’t want my homosexualy to be cured. Growg up, De Niro did not realise his father’s torment over his homosexualy: “I wasn’t aware of that … My mother told me once later, when I was a young adult, sort of ferred. In a new article for Out magaze tled "Robert De Niro: Me and My Gay Dad, " the 70-year-old Osr-wng actor says his famo pater father was nflicted over his homosexualy.

ROBERT DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HAVG A GAY FATHER

Scrib beg gay as a sort of "afflictn. Lived openly as a gay man his later years, the actor says 's time to share the full story of his father's life wh a wir dience.

In the HBO movie, Rememberg the Artist: Robert De Niro, Senr, De Niro pays homage to his father and namake, an openly-gay pater who, unlike his son, never achieved the kd of artistic regnn the Osr wner feels he a wonrful new terview wh Out Magaze, the actg legend be so emotnal when discsg his late father, and the ocsnally difficult relatnship he had wh him, that at tim he n’t que get words out over the lump his throat.

Robert let CBS Morngs anchor Gayle Kg reveal tails about his new baby on May 11. Gayle showed the first picture of Robert and Tiffany’s newborn dghter, named Gia Virgia Chen-De Niro. Gayle revealed that baby Gia was born April 6 and weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounc.

ROBERT DE NIRO'S DAD FELT GUILTY ABOUT BEG GAY — SI HIS PERSONAL STGGL

However, as popular as he was, he battled wh his sexualy bee he was gay. Havg lived at a time when homosexualy was not wily accepted, the artist was never keen to reveal himself all through his lifetime. After host Gayle Kg asked to hold the 3-month-old, she turned Gia toward the mera and said, “Look over there.

Gayle Kg held the 3-month-old on “CBS Morngs. Perhaps that's why 's so shockg to see him shake and sob as he talks about his late father, who lived openly as a gay 's been more than 20 years sce Robert De Niro Sr.

ROBERT DE NIRO: I WISH I'D SPOKEN TO MY GAY DAD ABOUT HIS SEXUALY

You're g out of nowhere, startg out -- that's part of the excement of a way, I may return to some of the thgs you read om the diari the documentary, your father said he felt like beg an artist was an "afflictn, " and he thought beg gay was a sort of afflictn. About his homosexualy?

ROBERT DE NIRO REVEALS DOCUMENTARY THAT HIS FATHER WAS GAY

The elr De Niro wrote of prayg "until I am cured of my mental and emotnal sickns, " one add: "If God don't want me to be homosexual (about which I have so much guilt), he will fd a woman whom I will love and who will love me. But I really don't want my homosexualy to be cured. Robert De Niro opened up about his gay father to Out Magaze this week.

(Rters)Robert De Niro has revealed that his dad was gay reports The New York Post.

ROBERT DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER

Was gay.

The new mom told Gayle Kg on “CBS Morngs” a Thursday clip, which will air Friday, that her “tongue felt strange, ” “tgly” and “numb” when she left the hospal wh baby girl Gia April.

ROBERT DE NIRO REMEMBERS HIS GAY FATHER

She told Gayle Kg about losg “all facial functn. Dcribg his father, who died of ncer 20 years ago, as “always a great artist, ” the Taxi Driver star also told Out: “Yeah, he probably was [nflicted about beg gay], beg om that generatn, pecially om a small town upstate.

As Robert De Niro's girliend, Tiffany Chen, took to daytime TV to share the story of her postpartum difficulti, she found a source of fort their newborn dghter, Gia baby, who was born April, was seen og alongsi her mom the arms of CBS Morngs host Gayle Kg, wearg a illy drs as the two women doted over 45-year-old gave her first terview sce welg her dghter wh the veteran actor, his first wh Tiffany and seventh Robert De Niro and Tiffany Chen's newborn dghter mak TV butShe revealed to Gayle that after givg birth, she lost all movement her face and found out that she had Bell's palsy, sharg a fiant msage for new moms by sayg: "Women should not feel hurt by .

© Getty ImagGia Virgia ma her first appearance on CBS Morngs wh Gayle KgTiffany, a fns stctor and martial arts enthiast, opened up about her lovg relatnship wh Robert, openg up about how he supported her through her health stggl. Robert De Niro gets emotnal when talkg about the father he is named after, Robert De Niro, Sr., a figurative pater who was also gay.