Fran Drescher 'Blessed To Have Met' Gay Ex-Husband
In a bombshell interview with
In Touch Weekly, Fran Drescher has revealed that her ex-husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, to whom she was married for more than 21 years, is gay.
Although he broke the news to her after they divorced in 1999, Drescher has finally come clean about her ex's sexuality, admitting his confession brought them closer together. "Peter and I feel so blessed to have met each other and to still have a caring, loving relationship," Fran says. "Love is what we're all about."
In the interview, Drescher speaks candidly about her openly gay ex-husband and the traumatic burglary that changed everything.
The two first met while attending Hillcrest High School in Jamaica, Queens. The couple married in 1978 when Drescher was 21 -- shortly after she made her film debut in 1977's 'Saturday Night Fever.' In hindsight, Drescher admits young love had its pitfalls, but the two went through life-changing experiences that would later define their careers in Hollywood.
"Peter and I met when we were 15," Drescher tells In Touch. "We were just kids and didn't know who we truly were. We went through a lot together."
Jacobson and Drescher became an unstoppable team when he wrote, directed and produced her signature television series, 'The Nanny.'
But not everything was as simple as it seemed.
The couple had quite a few ups and downs -- including a traumatic experience in January 1985 when two armed robbers broke into their Los Angeles apartment. While one robber ransacked their home, the other sexually assaulted Drescher at gunpoint. Jacobson was also physically attacked, tied up and forced to witness the entire ordeal.
Although the man was sentenced to two life sentences, Drescher had a difficult time overcoming the horrifying ordeal. "At the time, it didn't seem to hurt the marriage," Fran told Larry King in 2002, but added, "Nothing was ever really the same again."
The couple separated in 1996 and were officially divorced in 1999. They did not have any children together.
That's when Jacobson finally told Drescher that he was gay. Although the two split, Drescher reveals they're still "the best of friends" and continue to collaborate. "We love each other dearly," she says. "We have even fixed each other up! I more successfully than him, by the way."
The couple even co-hosted a cocktail party in LA to benefit an organization that sought to block California's ban on same-sex marriage -- known as Prop 8. "I'm a gay icon," she explains. "But even if I weren't, I'm a political activist who believes in preserving the American dream, which is tolerance of diversity and the separation of church and state."
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tolerate diversity - a great motto to live by!!
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Diversity is perversity, no civilization survives without a set of norms and values, that are not beneficial to the continuation of a structured society.
Mark that was a great one!!!
Well Mark, you and your Nazi mentality certainly have a place somewhere -- say, in an ant colony, or a bee hive, or maybe a termite colony, huh??? You're an idiot!!! Diversity is NECESSARY to EVOLVE, without it then you are robotic and have NO ability to think or act without FEAR of conviction and sanction. There is a think called the "letter of the law and the spirit of the law", which also attaches here -- if you want to go strictly by the "letter" then woe to all; if you want to go by the "spirit" then you use the premise of the standard to then CAREFULLY try to still maintain but ALLOW change when necessary. Again, simply put, YOU'RE A NAZI!! SIEG HEIL!!!
(PS -- I would still love to wake up, or go to sleep with Fran anytime. She's gorgeous in many ways!!)
Fran couldn't figure out why her dildo was always in a different spot?
Seems to work
That pic is not him lol... I smell a law suit! lol
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Why do you say that? It looks like every photo I've ever seen of him.
That's him on the right, on a real good night.
So, if he was gay and she was with him during that time period, then no doubt she would probably test positive for a host of things, including hepatitis, cytomegalovirus and other sexually transmitted diseases. There's a reason that the original hepatitis B vaccine used serum from gay men....since at the time nearly 80% of them were positive for Hep. Not to mention how the rates of other STD's are much higher in gay men than in heterosexuals.
Nothing against gay men, I wish them all health and happiness in pursuing their Lifestyle, but am just stating the facts re them and STD's.
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Your so called "facts" are wrong!!! GET REAL!!!!
JT....your straight sexual society has a whole bunch of problems with sexually transmitted diseases as well....
What a myopic view of this gent and labeling him with all the STDS just because he is gay.....what box logic....but then you are probably absorbed in religon and crucifying anyone that does not hold their weight in gods eyes.....
Shame on you for just figuring he has all the STDS because he is gay....and how labeling of you....how stupid.....not all gay people are promiscuous and carry disease....
You are an idiot...
What a loser you are. Spreading hate with your twisted "facts".
The original Hepatitis B vaccine was made from pooled hepatitis B carriers. NOT exclusively gay men. Also, it is not only gay men who carry the diseases that you mention, it is all people who have sex with others because you are having sex with everybody that they had sex with in a sense. Imagine the diseases that Heterosexual Tiger Woods could have brought home to his wife after sleeping with all those people he didn't know?
Cytomegalovirus is not a sexually transmitted disease. It is similar to mononucleousis.
WHAT? What planet are you from? What makes you think because a person is Gay, which I might add is a cromazone choice at conception, that he would have given Fran ANY kind of disease? I would like to know more about you, so I can understand where your form of education is from? Heck, I live in Mississippi, where some people think that the people here are less educated which is not true. I would truely like to know where you get your opinion ?
AMEN...Dangerous
If you think what you said is the facts...Honey,you may need to go get tested for the std's yourself
It is true that the general promiscuity of the homosexual was well as the abnormal practices has resulted in a significantly higher rate of disease and health problems from the general populace. So the general gist of what JT stated is accurate.
however wrong or right the supposed facts are, this person is entitled to his/her opinion. Suffices to say that opinion's are a lot like a certain body part that everyone has, both male and female to be exact; draw your own conclusions.