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10:34 pm - 01/13/2013

Jodie Foster Comes Out On Live Television

Finally, after years of avoiding any official confirmation, Jodie Foster just came out at the Golden Globe Awards.




Receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award for the many, many great films she has made over the past four decades, an obviously nervous Foster first toyed with the audience a little, dancing around the issue before affirming that, yes, she is a lesbian. (She had previously thanked a female partner in a 2007 speech, but it was not an official, direct coming out.)

Well aware that people have been waiting for this moment for years, Foster explained that her delay wasn't based in shame, but in the fact that she came of age when there was a larger premium on privacy.

She was not of the era when gay or lesbian stars held press conferences to discuss their private lives, she said. But, standing up on that stage, poised and proud, Foster finally did the deed. And we couldn't be more happy for her!

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hjohnson 14th-Jan-2013 04:16 am (UTC)
Yeah, she made a joke about being single and then started talking about privacy, got bleeped out for about 25 seconds and then she retired.

Maybe she said something somewhere in there
kriskross 14th-Jan-2013 04:20 am (UTC)
Yeah, I noticed the bleep and was like "Wait, wait...did she officially confirm something during the bleep??" I was so confused.
aria_grace 14th-Jan-2013 04:39 am (UTC)
Incredibly ill-timed bleep! I read somewhere else that she said something like 'oh Jesus' and that's why they bleeped.
tigersnap 14th-Jan-2013 05:48 am (UTC)
it was a long bleep. i thought the sound accidentally dropped out. is "oh jesus" really offensive?
aria_grace 14th-Jan-2013 05:49 am (UTC)
Not to me but to some people. And I think they are especially twitchy after kathy Griffin's whole 'Jesus sucks' thing.
speedychi 14th-Jan-2013 09:00 pm (UTC)
Suck it Jesus?
williammiller 14th-Jan-2013 07:07 am (UTC)
Sally Field said "god damn" one time and got in a lot of trouble.
williammiller 14th-Jan-2013 07:08 am (UTC)
She didn't retire though. She said she just wants to go the directing route.
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