Robert De Niro Opens Up About His Gay Father | Vany Fair

Contents:

• DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER
• ROBERT DE NIRO: I WISH I'D SPOKEN TO MY GAY DAD ABOUT HIS SEXUALY
• ROBERT DE NIRO CLAIMS HE IS WORRIED ABOUT HIS GAY SON BEE OF PRINT TMP
• ROBERT 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
• IS ROBERT DE NIRO GAY?

DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 opened up about his gay father to Out Magaze this week.

ROBERT DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER

De Niro is the father of six mixed-raced children, and his son is gay.

ROBERT DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HAVG A GAY FATHER

" I worry, and one of my kids is gay, and he worri about beg treated a certa way. 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'S DAD FELT GUILTY ABOUT BEG GAY — SI HIS PERSONAL STGGL

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.

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. 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.

IS ROBERT DE NIRO GAY?

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? 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.