Cassandra Peterson, a.k.a. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, revealed who among her fans jumped ship after she disclosed her longtime relationship with another woman in her New York Times-bestselling memoir. The iconic horror host told David Yontef of the "Behind the Velvet Rope" podcast that "horny old men" abandoned her the day after the Sept. 21 publication of her memoir, "Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark," in which she publicly revealed for the first time her two-decade relationship?️? with trainer Teresa Wierson. "In one day...I lost 11,000 people. They just said, 'Elvira, you lied to me. I don't respect you any more. Goodbye,'" Peterson said. But they won't be missed. "I got 60,000 new followers the same day!" the horror maven detailed. What's more, it wasn't her straight fans Peterson was worried about. Talking about her LGBTQ+ fanbase, Peterson said she "hope[s] they embrace it, but I was feeling like, 'What if they think I'm a big fat hypocrite, and I was lying to them?' And here I was, going, 'I love the LGBTQ community,' and meanwhile I'm one of them and I'm not saying anything about it...that scared me more." Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork ?♀️❤️?️? ?️: Kilian Melloy / @dragelruairi ?: Cassandra Peterson, a.k.a. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
January 11, 2022
![Cassandra Peterson, a.k.a. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, revealed who among her fans jumped ship after she disclosed her longtime relationship with another woman in her New York Times-bestselling memoir.
The iconic horror host told David Yontef of the "Behind the Velvet Rope" podcast that "horny old men" abandoned her the day after the Sept. 21 publication of her memoir, "Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark," in which she publicly revealed for the first time her two-decade relationship?️? with trainer Teresa Wierson.
"In one day...I lost 11,000 people. They just said, 'Elvira, you lied to me. I don't respect you any more. Goodbye,'" Peterson said.
But they won't be missed. "I got 60,000 new followers the same day!" the horror maven detailed.
What's more, it wasn't her straight fans Peterson was worried about. Talking about her LGBTQ+ fanbase, Peterson said she "hope[s] they embrace it, but I was feeling like, 'What if they think I'm a big fat hypocrite, and I was lying to them?' And here I was, going, 'I love the LGBTQ community,' and meanwhile I'm one of them and I'm not saying anything about it...that scared me more."
Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork
?♀️❤️?️?
?️: Kilian Melloy / @dragelruairi
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Cassandra Peterson, a.k.a. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, revealed who among her fans jumped ship after she disclosed her longtime relationship with another woman in her New York Times-bestselling memoir.
The iconic horror host told David Yontef of the "Behind the Velvet Rope" podcast that "horny old men" abandoned her the day after the Sept. 21 publication of her memoir, "Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark," in which she publicly revealed for the first time her two-decade relationship?️? with trainer Teresa Wierson.
"In one day...I lost 11,000 people. They just said, 'Elvira, you lied to me. I don't respect you any more. Goodbye,'" Peterson said.
But they won't be missed. "I got 60,000 new followers the same day!" the horror maven detailed.
What's more, it wasn't her straight fans Peterson was worried about. Talking about her LGBTQ+ fanbase, Peterson said she "hope[s] they embrace it, but I was feeling like, 'What if they think I'm a big fat hypocrite, and I was lying to them?' And here I was, going, 'I love the LGBTQ community,' and meanwhile I'm one of them and I'm not saying anything about it...that scared me more."
Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork
?♀️❤️?️?
?️: Kilian Melloy / @dragelruairi
?: Cassandra Peterson, a.k.a. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
The iconic horror host told David Yontef of the "Behind the Velvet Rope" podcast that "horny old men" abandoned her the day after the Sept. 21 publication of her memoir, "Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark," in which she publicly revealed for the first time her two-decade relationship?️? with trainer Teresa Wierson.
"In one day...I lost 11,000 people. They just said, 'Elvira, you lied to me. I don't respect you any more. Goodbye,'" Peterson said.
But they won't be missed. "I got 60,000 new followers the same day!" the horror maven detailed.
What's more, it wasn't her straight fans Peterson was worried about. Talking about her LGBTQ+ fanbase, Peterson said she "hope[s] they embrace it, but I was feeling like, 'What if they think I'm a big fat hypocrite, and I was lying to them?' And here I was, going, 'I love the LGBTQ community,' and meanwhile I'm one of them and I'm not saying anything about it...that scared me more."
Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork
?♀️❤️?️?
?️: Kilian Melloy / @dragelruairi
?: Cassandra Peterson, a.k.a. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
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