Elliot Page reveals he was in a secret relationship with a closeted actress for nearly two years.
Page wrote in his bombshell memoir, Pageboy, that he met the actress he calls “Ryan” whereas making a film and fell “desperately in love.”
“My partner was more closeted than me for a change,” the Juno actor wrote, including that even his closest associates didn’t know in regards to the relationship, reviews Page Six.
Page, 36, wrote that he remembers once they first met in a espresso store in Los Angeles when he was 26.
“She was radiant – her dress, her smile, how she pushed her hair from her face … We discussed books, activism, our collective consciousness, and the deep intelligence of nature,” he wrote.
According to the Umbrella Academy star, the couple carried out an especially clandestine romance that was recognized to solely a handful of individuals.
“Her parents did not know,” Page famous. “I was the friend that came for Christmas … We never touched outside, we barely went to dinner. She was in my phone under the name ‘Ryan.’”
Despite the secrecy surrounding their relationship, Page mentioned they did handle to have “a lot of fun,” and “discreet but adventurous sex. On rocks, just below the Pacific Coast Highway, hidden in boulders in Joshua Tree National Park, on an airplane.”
The duo additionally took some memorable journeys collectively to Nova Scotia and stayed in a buddy’s cabin exterior of Pugwash.
The Whip It star remembered that when whereas ready for a connecting flight in an Air Canada lounge, “Ryan” took the e-book Page was studying and “began to write in the back sleeve, an outpouring of love, one of the most beautiful letters I have ever received.”
But Page confessed that “it was not a sustainable relationship … the lying the anxiety, the disgust.”
The Canadian-born actor believed that ‘Ryan’ couldn’t “handle the shame” of being regarded as “queer” and broke up with him, inflicting his “heart to be shattered.”
Not lengthy after the pair break up, Page went to a celebration, and “Ryan” got here with a male date. Unable to manage, he fled the room and pretended to have gotten meals poisoning.
“Ryan’s” accomplice kindly introduced over some coconut water for Page.
“He had no idea about our history of course,” he wrote. “It was a kind gesture, but I wanted to take that coconut water and throw it.”
Eventually, Page left, distraught from watching “Ryan” having fun with a celebration and touching her date “in the way she never could with me … it unreservedly gutted me.”
The Oscar nominee wrote of different relationships together with one with actress Kate Mara and Olivia Thirlby on the set of Juno.
Page doesn’t shrink back from darker topics together with being chased by a maniac shouting transphobic feedback and being verbally assaulted by an unnamed A-list actor who mentioned he would “f**k” him, to show that the Inception star wasn’t homosexual.
Page got here out as homosexual in 2014 and as transgender in December 2020.
This article initially appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission
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