Debbie Reynolds, who died Wednesday at
the age of 84, said in a recent interview that people are born gay.
Reynolds, who is best known for such
films as The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Singin' in the Rain,
and How the West Was Won and her decades of performing on the
stage, in 2014 talked to Greg in Hollywood about her gay fans.
“I have always since 1948 hired
dancers and creative people who were gay,” Reynolds
said. “They are like my children.”
“I didn’t know anything about why
it had to be – why we are different. I was probably like everyone
else, no knowledge about [why] we are born this way. I had to learn
and I have learned. You have to want to learn to get rid of your
prejudices. You can’t want to stay that way.”
“No one who is born gay asks to be
gay. I’ve tried of talking to members of my family. They hear it
but don’t understand it. It’s very difficult to explain.
Happiness is being a giving person, an understanding person,” she
added.
(Related: Debra
Messing mourns loss of TV mom Debbie Reynolds.)