Contents:
- DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS 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
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. 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. 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. 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. 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.