Cassandra Peterson, aka iconic horror hostess Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, claims she lost 11,000 “horny old men” followers on social media after she came out as queer in September.
“I knew that there were going to be some horny old men out there who were just not going to like the fact that they didn’t have a chance with me anymore,” Peterson joked on Thursday’s episode of David Yontef’s “Behind The Velvet Rope” podcast.
She laughed and added, “and I hate to tell them they already didn’t have a chance of me anyway.”
The 70-year-old “Queen of Halloween” shocked fans last year when she revealed her nearly two-decade-long romance with partner Teresa “T” Wierson.
“[It] flipped everybody out,” she recalled. “Nobody was ready for that. People just said, ‘Elvira, you lied to me. I don’t respect you anymore. Goodbye,’” she said.
Peterson added that her honesty cost her 11,000 followers on social media — though the 60,000 new ones she gained more than made up for the loss.
She added that the “horny old men” demographic wasn’t the one that worried her, saying, “Honestly, I worried more about my gay fan base.”
“Because I hope they embraced it, but I was feeling like: ‘What if they think I’m a big fat hypocrite, and I was lying to them?’”
Peterson came out in her memoir, “Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark,” and explained that she kept her relationship secret because she was worried it would affect her Elvira brand, which centered around her sex appeal to men.
“So I worried that if I announced I was no longer living the ‘straight life,’ my fans would feel lied to, call me a hypocrite, and abandon me,” she wrote.
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Original Article: https://pagesix.com/2022/01/07/cassandra-elvira-peterson-lost-11k-followers-after-coming-out/
Oh well, never really followed her. Wasn’t one of my favorite people to start with.
So she’s a mentally ill homosexic in a dead end relationship…
I thought she was married to a doctor. I guess I was wrong. It doesn’t matter what your sexual preferences are because it’s nobody’s business but the person that of the person that is being viewed.
Well that’s the best way to INCREASE your fan base for sure in today’s America!
The only she could increase it even more in today’s America is if she said she was a transgender.
(Woke women would have to cheer being beat out yet again by a male turned female….. lol.)
Found her entertaining. Her sexual preference has nothing to do with talent, or any other job choices, this is her personal business.
i can still watch her on bing videos and jack off