What a lovely surprise! I never heard so much as a whisper about Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson being gay, but she has been in a 19-year-relationship with a woman named Teresa “T” Wierson.
Peterson, who turned an ageless 70 last week, touches on the relationship in new new memoir, entitled Yours Cruelly, Elvira, which is out today.
According to The Advocate, Peterson mistook T for a man at her gym, and then hired her as her trainer. Both were in relationships, but things took a romantic turn when they found themselves freshly single.
It's sad she felt the need to keep it hush-hush: Would my fans hate me for not being what they expected me to be? I’m very aware that there will be some who will be disappointed and maybe even angry, but I have to