Pee-Wee Herman Paul Reubens actor comes out as gay in posthumous dock


Pee Wee Herman Actor Paul Rubens comes out as gay in posthumously dock
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Pee-Wee Herman actor Paul Rubens Open to his sexuality in the new documentary He was pissing like herselfS

In the new project, which premiered at the 2025 Film Festival on Thursday, January 23, critics I learned that the actor has a secret boyfriend named Boy by Echo Park, California.

“I was secret for my sexuality even to my friends (beyond) self -built or self -preservation,” Rubens said in the documentary via The New York PostS “I was in a conflict for sexuality. But glory was much more complicated. “

Seated with a director Mat Wolf Rubens’ 40 hours of interviews are openly talking about his personal life as well as his experience, playing the emblematic character of Pee-Wee Herman.

Although Rubens He died in July 2023. At the age of 70, after a private battle for cancer, he made his intention for the Clear documentary.

“More than anything, the reason why I wanted to make a documentary was people to see who I was actually and how painful and terrible it was to be labeled with something I am not,” Rubens said in my last audio record on the day before his death. “To be labeled pair; To make people scare you or comply. “

Pee Wee Herman Actor Paul Rubens comes out as gay in posthumously dock
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Rubens said he had a “very, very secret relationship”, but that his career had always come before his love life.

His Hollywood status suffered a major blow in 1991 when he was arrested in an adult cinema and accused of indecent exposure. (Later he pleaded without a competition.)

“I kept what I’ve been a secret for a very long time. It really turned when I was arrested, “he said in the documentary. “People have never seen a picture of me other than Pee-Wee Herman. And suddenly I had Charli Manson Mugshot. I lost control of my anonymity. It was devastating. “

More than three decades after the incident, Rubens said he was still feeling the effects of his actions.

Pee Wee Herman Actor Paul Rubens comes out as gay in posthumously dock
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“It’s shocking what horrible, terrible things people think of me,” he said. “It’s still a significant footnote.”

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In the end, it seems that Rubens wants his fans to receive an honest, more full -time picture of his entire life, which included secrets that could finally come to light.

“I was out of the closet and then I returned to the closet,” he said. “I didn’t pursue Paul Rubens’ career, pursuing Herman Pee-Wee’s career.”

He was pissing like herself is planned to flow to Max later this year.