And she said, no, I've always known that you were sad and pained, but I didn't know what it was. And she says that she was never uptight about homosexuality. And she states in quotes, I will not be a closet mother. She told all of her family and friends immediately. And she lived with her son and his husband two different times in California. They told her what it was like to live in the closet and what it was like to betray themselves every day