De Niro opens up about his gay father | CNN

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• ROBERT DE NIRO TALKS OPENLY ABOUT HAVG A GAY FATHER, “I WISH WE HAD SPOKEN ABOUT IT MUCH MORE”
• ROBERT DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HAVG A GAY FATHER
• DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER

ROBERT DE NIRO TALKS OPENLY ABOUT HAVG A GAY FATHER, “I WISH WE HAD SPOKEN ABOUT IT MUCH MORE”

In July 2023, Chen spoke to Gayle Kg on CBS Morngs about her Bell's palsy diagnosis, which me shortly after givg birth to Gia. 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.

ROBERT DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HAVG A GAY FATHER

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.

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.

DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER

But I really don’t want my homosexualy to be cured.