Was Iris Really Julia Child's Friend? Was Julia Child Gay?

Contents:

• ‘JULIA’ STAR DAVID HY PIERCE LLS GAY IN JULIA CHILD’S HOMOPHOBIA ‘NFG’
• WAS IRIS REALLY JULIA CHILD’S FRIEND? WAS JULIA CHILD GAY?

‘JULIA’ STAR DAVID HY PIERCE LLS GAY IN JULIA CHILD’S HOMOPHOBIA ‘NFG’

David Hy Pierce knew all about Julia Child’s homophobia gog to HBO Max’s “Julia, ” but he still lls “nfg. “It’s nfg bee so many ways she’s an in, or was an in, to the gay muny, ” he tells Page Six a new terview. That said, Pierce 62, not that he is sure both Julia and Pl had “plenty of gay and lbian people their liv, both Paris [where they lived for five years] and the Stat, ” addg, “So those stanc are jt, you know, a sort of unnsc prejudice.

Pierce explas that he was not surprised by the Childs’ homophobia when he joed “Julia” bee a “ar iend who is gay” worked wh the late “French Chef” host and allegedly “experienced that” firsthand.

“The fact that she had the abily to change and see as human begs is important, ” the openly gay actor says, notg he do not know if Pl ever changed his views, too. In one scene of the new show, Pl risively refers to gay men as “fairi, ” a le that Pierce says he felt “was very important” to be clud. When my hband [Brian Hargrove] and I met was a time the world where people weren't very public about beg gay.

WAS IRIS REALLY JULIA CHILD’S FRIEND? WAS JULIA CHILD GAY?

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