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Jodie Foster, honored for the Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement in film at the 70th Annual Golden Globes, surprised many as she publicly addressed that she is a lesbian.
She said that she did her coming out to friends a long time ago , acknowledged she had a female partner when she thanked Cydney Bernard, who she also called out as the co-parent of their children.
From her speech:
“I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the Stone Age, in those very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends and family and co-workers and then gradually, proudly to everyone who knew her, to everyone she actually met. But now apparently I’m told that every celebrity is to honor the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a primetime reality show. There is no way I could ever stand here without acknowledging one of the deepest loves of my life, my heroic co-parent, my ex-partner in love but righteous soul sister in life, my confessor, ski buddy, consigliore, most beloved BFF of 20 years, Cydney Bernard. Thank you, Cyd. I am so proud of our modern family. Our amazing sons, Charlie and Kit, who are my reason to breathe and to evolve, my blood and soul. And boys, in case you didn’t know it, this song, all of this, this song is for you.”
Of course, this is not the first time Foster has ‘come out’ as during her acceptance speech for the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at the 16th annual Women in Entertainment Breakfast Dec. 4, 2007 she thanked her longtime partner Cydney Bernard: “… my beautiful Cydney who sticks with me through all the rotten and the bliss.” It was the first public acknowledgment of Cydney and could be construed as her coming out.
