Robert De Niro Sr, an artist who was renowned for his fearls e of lors his works battled wh his sexualy bee he was gay.
Contents:
- ROBERT DE NIRO TALKS OPENLY ABOUT HAVG A GAY FATHER, “I WISH WE HAD SPOKEN ABOUT IT MUCH MORE”
- DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER
- ROBERT DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HAVG A GAY FATHER
- ROBERT DE NIRO REMEMBERS HIS GAY FATHER
ROBERT DE NIRO TALKS OPENLY ABOUT HAVG A GAY FATHER, “I WISH WE HAD SPOKEN ABOUT IT MUCH MORE”
The elr De Niro was a renowned artist who kept his homosexualy hidn throughout his De Niro Sr. He was gay, somethg that wasn’t discsed openly durg his lifetime and that he had to keep hidn for most of his his book Thgs I Wish I’d Known: Reflectns on a Life, Robert De Niro Sr. 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.
However, as popular as he was, he battled wh his sexualy bee he was gay.
DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER
Havg lived at a time when homosexualy was not wily accepted, the artist was never keen to reveal himself all through his lifetime. 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.
ROBERT DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HAVG A GAY FATHER
”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.
ROBERT DE NIRO REMEMBERS HIS GAY FATHER
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.