Robert De Niro's Dad Felt Guilty about Beg Gay — si His Personal Stggl

Contents:

• DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER
• ROBERT DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HAVG A GAY FATHER
• IS ROBERT DE NIRO GAY?
• ROBERT DE NIRO'S DAD FELT GUILTY ABOUT BEG GAY — SI HIS PERSONAL STGGL
• ROBERT DE NIRO CLAIMS HE IS WORRIED ABOUT HIS GAY SON BEE OF PRINT TMP

DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER

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. 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.

IS ROBERT DE NIRO GAY?

Havg lived at a time when homosexualy was not wily accepted, the artist was never keen to reveal himself all through his lifetime. Nowadays, there is no answer to the qutn -Robert De Niro is gay? However, there are people who say Robert De Niro is gay, but their ments haven't any nsistency or accuracy of any kd.

Although Robert De Niro has never admted to beg gay, the media always nsirs the likelihood of one day reportg on the other.

Do you know any rmatn regardg the qutn - Is Robert De Niro 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.

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.

Raphael is his first blogil child and olst Robert De Niro shar memori of his late gay fatherHe weled tw sons Julian and Aaron, 27, wh his former girliend, mol and actrs Toie Smh, 70, who he was wh om 1985 until 1992.

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

”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. 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? Acrdg to The Irish Post, De Niro's father me out as gay 1945, g his parents to swiftly separate.