Robert De Niro opens up about his gay father new HBO documentary

Contents:

• 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 OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER
• ROBERT NIRO WAS BAPTIZED A ROMAN CATHOLIC BEHD THE BACKS OF HIS GAY DAD & ATHEIST MOM
• ROBERT DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER NEW HBO DOCUMENTARY
• ROBERT DE NIRO CLAIMS HE IS WORRIED ABOUT HIS GAY SON BEE OF PRINT TMP
• ROBERT DE NIRO SHAR MEMORI OF HIS LATE GAY FATHER
• ROBERT DE NIRO REVEALS DOCUMENTARY THAT HIS FATHER WAS GAY
• ROBERT DE NIRO REMEMBERS HIS GAY FATHER
• ROBERT DE NIRO: I WISH I'D SPOKEN TO MY GAY DAD ABOUT HIS SEXUALY

DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER

Was gay and private about his sexualy.

ROBERT DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HAVG A GAY FATHER

De Niro’s father was a gay man who divorced De Niro’s mother when the actor was a child. 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. 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. 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.

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

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.

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.

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. 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 OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER

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.

ROBERT NIRO WAS BAPTIZED A ROMAN CATHOLIC BEHD THE BACKS OF HIS GAY DAD & ATHEIST MOM

But I really don't want my homosexualy to be cured. 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 DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER NEW HBO DOCUMENTARY

Picture of Robert DeNiro and Olmo Dal the 1976 movie "1900" | Source: Getty ImagUnfortunately, the "Taxi Driver" star never enjoyed livg wh both parents, as he was only a toddler when his father left his mother after realizg he was gay. Regardg his sexualy, the artist also wrote that if God did not want him to be gay, he would fd him a woman he would love. Robert De Niro Sr me out as gay.

And the reason behd the uple partg ways is bee the senr De Niro me out as gay.

ROBERT DE NIRO CLAIMS HE IS WORRIED ABOUT HIS GAY SON BEE OF PRINT TMP

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. Robert De Niro has a story to tell, and 's not his award-wng actor took a seat behd the scen to produce a documentary about his late father, who was openly gay, lled "Rememberg the Artist: Robert De Niro Sr.

De Niro is the father of six mixed-raced children, and his son is gay. " I worry, and one of my kids is gay, and he worri about beg treated a certa way.

Robert De Nirohas spoken lovgly abouthis late father, an openly gay artist. "Yeah, he probably was (nflicted about beg gay), pecially om a small town upstate, " the 70-year-old told the magaze.

ROBERT DE NIRO SHAR MEMORI OF HIS LATE GAY FATHER

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

ROBERT DE NIRO REVEALS DOCUMENTARY THAT HIS FATHER WAS GAY

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.

ROBERT DE NIRO REMEMBERS HIS GAY FATHER

Discsg his father's sexualy, the Osr wner said, "Yeah, he probably was [nflicted about beg gay], beg om that generatn, pecially om a small town upstate.

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

Robert De Niro opened up about his gay father to Out Magaze this week. His father's journals tail when he realized he was gay.