The star of ’90s TV show The Nanny, Fran Drescher, will be imitating life in her new TV show Happily Divorced, which she has based on her own relationship with her gay ex-husband.
The 53-year-old’s new show, which premieres on June 15 in the US, is about a woman whose husband turns out to be gay, which is exactly what happened to Drescher, the actor told People magazine.
“He had already been living a gay life away from me after we divorced, and he said, ‘I don’t want you to be shocked. I’m dating men’,” she said.
Drescher’s husband Peter Marc Jacobson came out of the closet after the pair had been married 21 years, but his announcement didn’t exactly surprise her.
“During our marriage he had told me he might be bisexual, but he wanted to stay married,” she said.
“By the time he told me, I had survived uterine cancer. Nothing could shake me.” The pair have remained friends since divorcing in 1999 and Drescher has campaigned for gay rights in support of her ex-husband.
“It’s great that we had the ability and the wisdom to reinvent our relationship. All those years weren’t for nothing,” she said. “We’re very tight. We’re best friends.”
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