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He returned to cinema in 2021 with The United States vs Billie Holiday, focusing on Holiday’s civil rights activism and persecution by the American government, earning an Oscar nomination for its star Audra Day. His horror film Deliverance, starring Mo’Nique, was released in 2024. And so did Laurie Ingram, his girlfriend at the time.
His school experience was so bad that he avoided going to the bathroom at school. His 2013 film, the pretentiously-titled Lee Daniels’ The Butler, was inspired by the life of Eugene Allen, an African-American man who worked at the White House for 30 years.
He isn't scared anymore, though.
"In my head, he was coming back to kill me," Daniels confessed to THR. He was old enough to know he was gay.
Here's the story of how Lee Daniels came out to his dad and what consequences that accident brought about.
Lee Daniels: I Came Out as Gay “Because I Loathed My Dad”
Lee Daniels' life could be its own movie. “He shakes, he pushes, he swings,” she told Barbara Walters in an interview while they were still married.
The Precious director started dating stylist Jahil Fisher. Daniels rose to wider international attention as the producer and director of the 2009 drama Precious, based on the novel by Sapphire about a young Black woman struggling with poverty, illiteracy and physical and sexual abuse. He experienced hardships as a gay Black kid growing up in a white neighborhood.
So, when he came out, he did so because of hate. He told the magazine that when Halle Berry called him after she won the Oscar in 2002 for his “Monster Ball,” he was “strung out, methed out of his mind” at Los Angeles’ Chateau Marmont.
“I have to be really aware of it and always talking about it — and be truthful about it to the point of ugliness so that it keeps my ass in check,” he said.
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If you remember the scene in Empire where Lucious throws his son in a trash can, you might be surprised to know that the scene is based on reality.
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter in March 2017, he opined that his father might have been worried about his future, as it was difficult enough to be a Black man.
His father even threatened to kill him if he slept with a man. "I have to be really aware of it, and always talking about it — and be truthful about it to the point of ugliness so that it keeps my ass in check."
But the Paperboy director, who lives in New York City, prefers to keep some distance between himself and Hollywood.
Daniels even made his career bend to his will solely for love. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he had an unhappy, suffering physical and psychological abuse by his policeman father for being gay.