Minnelli says she didn’t know ex-husband Peter Allen was gay
Liza Minnelli has let it be known she didn’t know her late former husband Peter Allen was gay.
Minnelli , who is to tour Australia in October, told an interviewer: “No, of course I didn’t know. I don’t think he knew either … and when he did [accept his sexuality] of course he told me and of course I said ‘I understand’. But it was hard.”
The showbiz couple wed in 1967 and divorced almost a decade later, after the Australian-born singer-songwriter had come out as gay. He died in 1992.
Minnelli has been seen in the Australian media as “sticking the boot” into Allen’s autobiographical musical The Boy from Oz, which ran on Broadway,
Speaking to an Australian gay magazine, she suggested that the show, starring Hugh Jackman, was not true to Allen.
“I had no need to see it, I lived it,” she said. “I was there the first time. And nobody asked me anything about it; nobody could ask Peter anything. It was absolutely done without input from the people who were there.”
Minnelli was reported on Australian TV as planning to break two of her golden rules on the Australian tour – talking about her personal life and performing the songs of her legendary mother, Judy Garland.
Source: Splash News
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