Yours Cruelly, Elvira, to open up to the world about her long-term relationship with Teresa “T” Wierson. As Peterson tells it, the couple met at the Hollywood Gold’s Gym where the horror icon admired Wierson from afar. “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 in the book.