She was, um, she was a tricky personality. 'Perhaps she was offended by my lack of knowing. Jennifer said she is unsure of the late playwright's motive in telling her. The idea was that I was a fool and that everyone knew but me,' she told People, 'All I know, all I knew at the time was that it felt like it was a sniper attack. Joel came out as gay in 2015 at the age of 82, but Jennifer found out much earlier in the late '80s during a conversation with her then-boyfriend Matthew Broderick's mother, Patricia Broderick.Ĭhoosing to use a homophobic slur to ask whether Grey knew her father was gay, she claims Patricia, a playwright, blurted out: 'You know your dad's a f*g.' Meanwhile, Grey has also detailed the painful way she learned about her father, Oscar-winning Cabaret star Joel Grey, being gay. And it had very serious traumatic lasting effects on, I'm sure, Matthew and the family of the other women and me.' It was a pure and simple accident that was tragic. 'None of that, it's just we had an accident. And many people might think that I'm here to hell some long held secret.'
Speaking about it to PEOPLE she revealed: 'There was some very, very heavy stuff that went down that changed my life forever and there was no one to blame. In the tome, she revealed it felt 'like a sniper attack' when her father was outed as gay to her in the late 1980s Memories: Jennifer Gray is opening up about her life in her new memoir, Out of the Corner.
