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Lee Daniels shares a lot about his troubled youth in his much of his work ? but that doesn?t stop him from sharing his stories directly with his fans.

In a recent interview with Loyola Marymount University?s School of Film & TV, the director and producer admitted that he once tried to commit suicide by contracting AIDS through unprotected sex with strangers at bathhouses. He explained, ?It (AIDS) wiped away all of my friends. I had no friends? It was terrifying, because we never knew whether you could drink from glasses or what it was. It was the most terrifying thing ever. And I didn?t understand why it was that I wasn?t (dead), because there were far better souls than me that were going (dying). I thought that I needed to go. And so I descended into drugs and into sexual bathhouses to die. [The fact] that I don?t have AIDS is a miracle from God. I really don?t understand it. Everybody else did.?

Lee also reflected on a heartbreaking interaction he had with his father when he was just eight-years old, recalling to the crowd, ?I walked down the stairs with high heels on, and he put me in the trashcan. I think that?s where Precious came from, because I remember the stench. I remember the dark, the cold, my mother trying to fight, and then me, thinking that I was Aladdin on a carpet escaping. And I think that?s why I so related to Precious. But that was just one of many times. I have no hate in my heart for my father at all. I think that he didn?t understand [Daniels being gay]. He completely didn?t understand and he knew that it was hard enough being a black man, and thought that if he scared it out of me, in hindsight, I think he thought that if he scared it out of me, that I wouldn?t be gay, because he just couldn?t imagine what my life would be.?


Fortunately for Daniels, out of the trauma came television and film gold, like Empire and Precious. See what else the star had to say in the clip above.

https://globalgrind.com/4222155/lee-daniels-reveals-dark-secrets-about-his-difficult-childhood/



Ugh, it must suck not liking who you are.

This, coupled up with that WIG Bentley posted makes me understand him a lot more

[BAPHOMET.]

Rgghgffggg

Why is it that AIDS is the first word I saw

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,,,,,,,,mn

he hated himself and tried to get AIDED up

i still feel like he dislikes who he sees, but i guess he isnt suicidal anymore

this fag has yet to depict people that look like him in a positive light

[Vonc2002]

I swear to god i read this the other day and was like

[Freemala Harris]

,,,,,,,,mn

he hated himself and tried to get AIDED up

[Opposites Attract.]

This is the same shit all the white gays say. This whole woe is me Schick is late as fuck.

[GRAND]

i didnt really care about the aids comments

just the fact that he was a baby fag and his mom used to beat his fat ass made me realize why the crazy fag always has dark skinned blacks looking a fool in his productions

[GRAND]

mnnnnnnnn.nmb,//////////

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The word Aided always has me CRYING !

[Kurama]

This is the same shit all the white gays say. This whole woe is me Schick is late as fuck.

Im sorry but I had the same thought reading this.

[Cowgirl]

Rgghgffggg

Why is it that AIDS is the first word I saw

[Admin]

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I like him as a director but as a black man and as a gay man
he is fully repulsive

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And so I descended into drugs and into sexual bathhouses to die

omf 🦋