Actress, comedienne and horror icon Cassandra Peterson, best known as her alter ego Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, has officially come out of the closet.Peterson made the confession as part of the publication of her new memoir, Yours Cruelly, Elvira.
She further reveals that she and her female companion, Teresa “T” Wierson, have been in a relationship for 19 years.Peterson first spied Wierson while working out at Gold’s Gym in Hollywood.“Often, when I was doing my preworkout warm-up on the treadmill, I couldn’t help noticing one particular trainer — tan, tattooed, and muscular — stalking across the gym floor, knit cap pulled so low over his long brown hair that it nearly covered his eyes,” she writes.