James Dean Told Elizabeth Taylor His Childhood Priest Sexually Abused Him, ‘Shared His Deepest Pain’ with Her

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1. >”They stayed up long nights talking, and Dean found that once he started to let slip bits of emotional truth, the words poured out,” Colavito writes. “He told Taylor that his minister — he almost certainly meant the Reverend [James] DeWeerd — had sexually abused him, and Taylor felt that the trauma of the abuse had hurt him deeply and profoundly.”

   >”As he shared more of his life, his loves and his pain,” Colavito adds, “Taylor developed the distinct impression that Dean was trying to tell her he was gay.”

   Uhh, those are two different things.

   He could have been abused and gay, or one, or the other, but revealing that he was abused was not necessarily code for “I’m gay”. Is there more to this?

2. And… she felt it was necessary to share a friend’s deepest secret? I understand outing an abuser to prevent others from getting hurt. But sharing such delicate and private information posthumously of a friend seems tacky and ill advised.

3. I was friends with the man who took this photo, Richard C. Miller, who passed away 14 years ago. [Here’s a link to other pictures of his](https://www.soniceditions.com/photographer/richard-c-miller?srsltid=AfmBOor0mC7ukZHFPjTR20rWvV1i5aeWPxNMuOaVOI1o24Tv98uWD1R3), specifically on the set of Giant.

4. Found an old article referencing it but they made it sound consensual when it’s never consensual when you are underage

   https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/07/books/outing-james-dean.html

5. Well why do we know now

6. She was a compassionate woman, she also developed A very close friendship with Montgomery Clift. Also anguished and In the closet.

7. Not very cool of Elizabeth Taylor to betray his trust and gossip about him after he died.

8. Dean was raised as a Quaker and then befriended a Methodist Pastor. He never had a childhood Priest as neither the Quaker or Methodist Church has them.

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