CONTENT WARNING: This article discusses homophobic abuse and rape.
More details have emerged about the actor who allegedly threatened Elliot Page with corrective rape in 2014.
Prior to the release of his memoir Pageboy, the Juno actor revealed he would be detailing a disgusting experience in the book where an actor reportedly threatened to “fuck” him to make him realise he wasn’t gay.
On Thursday, a submission came to light via the Deux U podcast, hosted by celeb gossip sleuth Deuxmoi, that shared more details about the alleged interaction between the Page and the unnamed actor.
Deuxmoi revealed the submission featured the actor’s full name, but for legal reasons, she replaced it with the word “blank”. But she did reveal that the “asshole actor” was a “superhero”.
“I had a friend at this party who had to console Elliot after he was crying in the bathroom because of what Blank said,” the anonymous source said.
“He was another actor and he told me right after the party that Blank was badgering Elliot about how ‘he wasn’t gay and that’s ridiculous.’”
The source also claimed that this specific incident happened in 2013, but maybe Page could be talking about a second interaction in 2014.
“I just remember this being a big blowout,” they said.
Page, who came out as trans in December 2020, told People he included the fucking awful experience in Pageboy to show the tirade of abuse people in the LGBTQIA+ community receive, and how it’s normalised.
“I’ve had some version of that happen many times throughout my life,” he said.
“A lot of queer and trans people deal with it incessantly. These moments that we often, like, don’t talk about or we’re supposed to just brush off, when actually it’s very awful.
“I put that story in the book because it’s about highlighting the reality, the shit we deal with and what gets sent to us constantly, particularly in environments that are predominantly cis and heterosexual.
“How we navigate that world where you either have more extreme, overt moments like that. Or you have the more, like, subtle jokes.
“[In Hollywood] these are very powerful people. They’re the ones choosing what stories are being told and creating content for people to see all around the world.”
The Oscar-nominated actor told People he was “purposely” not sharing the dickhead’s name but myriad people at the party witnessed and heard the vile incident.
“But he will hear about this and know it’s him.”
The details of Page’s experience are found in the chapter titled “Famous Asshole at Party”. In the chapter, Page recounted the incident and what the unnamed actor allegedly said to him at a Los Angeles party.
He also noted that the alleged incident happened after he came out during a Human Rights Campaign conference in February 2014.
“You aren’t gay. That doesn’t exist. You are just afraid of men,” the actor told Page.
“I’m going to fuck you to make you realise you aren’t gay.”
I feel sick. You have to be a truly vile piece of shit to threaten someone with corrective rape — the rape of LGBTQIA+ people to “cure” them off their sexual orientation.
The actor bumped into Page at the gym a few days later and tried to back-pedal his revolting, homophobic comments and threat.
“I don’t have a problem with gay people, I swear,” the actor said.
“I think you might,” Page replied.
Elliot Page also revealed in his memoir that he had a relationship with House of Cards star Kate Mara while she was dating the “lovely and talented” Max Minghella.
The Umbrella Academy star didn’t confirm that Mara gave him permission to publish this story, but he did tell People she’d read the book and will be appearing with him at a Pageboy event in Los Angeles this month.
Pageboy is out now but you can also read the first chapter here.
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