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Lee Daniels Talks About Being Beaten Up, Discovering He Was Gay "That I don't have AIDS is a miracle from God," says the 'Empire' creator. By Stephen Galloway March 31, am. In a new interview with Out magazine, The Butler director Lee Daniels recalls coming out as gay "because I loathed my dad" and being "methed out my mind" during the Oscars when Halle Berry. Director Lee Daniels discovered his sexuality in an oppressive family home that could have been torn from the script of “Precious” — severely beaten as a child when his Philadelphia policeman dad.

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Learn All About The Producer's Childhood Struggles And His Story Of Coming Out As Gay!. By Stephen Galloway. When Lee Daniels was 8 years old, his dad threw him in a trash can.

I remember the dark, the cold, my mother trying to fight, and then me, thinking that I was Aladdin on a carpet escaping. But that was just one of many times. And I have no hate in my heart for my father at all. My dad told me I was going to be nothing. You are a faggot. But you have to remember, as long as you are strong, as long as you are fearless, as long as you are honest, you have nothing to worry about.

All my friends were dying. I came from extreme poverty. Drugs, parties, at 22, ish. And still directing theater. And AIDS hit. And again, it wiped away all of my friends. I had no friends. And we were burying each other, because most parents, 90 percent of the parents, were not taking them in. And it hit the community hard.

It was terrifying, because we never knew whether you could drink from glasses or what it was. It was the most terrifying thing ever. I thought that I needed to go. And so I descended into drugs and into sexual bath houses to die.

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Because I should have had HIV. Everybody else did. You grew up in Philadelphia. When did you first fall in love with the entertainment world? I was Instagramming live. And my publicist is so nervous about me doing it, because sometimes you do it drunk. I was eight years old, I was seven. The book itself looked interesting. I read it cover to cover there, and then I took it out.

It was my first book that I took out from the library. And then I had my cousins and my neighbors on the stoop of my front step and my sisters and brothers read all the characters, from Martha to George. I thought I was going to end up like most of my friends, in jail.