Elvira, 70, reveals she is a lesbian in new memoir and has been dating personal ...

Elvira, 70, reveals she is a lesbian in new memoir and has been dating personal ...
Elvira, 70, reveals she is a lesbian in new memoir and has been dating personal ...

Cult horror star Cassandra Peterson - best known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark - has revealed in her new memoir that she is a lesbian, and has been dating a personal trainer for the last 19 years. 

Elvira, 70, had kept her relationship with Teresa 'T' Wierson secret until now because she said she feared alienating fans. 

But she said she wanted to be open with fans in tell-all memoir Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark, released on Tuesday. 

'I’m glad to have it out there,' she wrote. 'I mean, it does worry me. I have moments where I go, "Maybe people won’t like me anymore" and "Maybe I won’t get work anymore."

'[But] I'm happy and relieved to finally allow our secret to see the light of day.' 

Peterson first began portraying horror icon Elvira in the 1980s.

The actress who played late-night horror hostess Elvira revealed she has been in a same-sex relationship with her former personal trainer Teresa 'T' Wierson since 2002 in her new memoir

The actress who played late-night horror hostess Elvira revealed she has been in a same-sex relationship with her former personal trainer Teresa 'T' Wierson since 2002 in her new memoir 

Peterson performs her show

In her memoir, Peterson discussed several anecdotes about her life involving romantic relationships and her other Hollywood experiences

In her memoir, Peterson discussed several anecdotes about her life involving romantic relationships and her other Hollywood experiences. Pictured left, Peterson performs her show "Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark" at Knott's Scary Farm at Knott's Berry Farm on September 21, 2017 in Buena Park, California

Peterson explains that when she first noticed Wierson at the gym, she mistook her for a man. 

 'Often, when I was doing my pre-workout warm-up on the treadmill, I couldn't help noticing one particular trainer — tan, tattooed, and muscular — stalking across the gym floor, knit cap pulled so low over his long brown hair that it nearly covered his eyes,' she wrote, according to People.   

Elvira actress Cassandra Peterson, 70, released a memoir called Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark on September 21

Elvira actress Cassandra Peterson, 70, released a memoir called Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark on September 21

'A typical sexy bad boy, he was unaware he was so charismatic that he'd garnered his own unofficial fan club. Watching him from the safety of my treadmill made my heart beat faster and the time pass much more quickly.' 

The pair met in 2002 when Peterson was still married to her manager Mark Pierson and the pair went to her gym Gold's Gym, where Wierson became Peterson's personal trainer. 

She admitted in her book that she was never attracted to women romantically before meeting Wierson, but after seeing a movie with her following her divorce, she got an urge to kiss the other woman. 

'I told her goodnight and suddenly felt compelled to kiss her — on the mouth,' she wrote in her book. 

Wierson also worked as her assistant before the women became romantically involved, according to the Sun

She also worried the relationship status would affect her work, as her Elvira character was a sex icon among men.

'Elvira has always had a thing for men, and men have a thing for her, 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. 

Since the revelation in her book, her fans have given her an

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