MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts has
described Jodie Foster's Golden Globes speech as not “a staying in
speech.”
In accepting her Cecil B. DeMille
Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes, Foster, 50,
delivered a rambling speech in which she repeatedly used the phrase
“coming out” and described her former partner as her “ex-partner
in love” but didn't actually say she is gay.
The vague speech left CNN anchor Don
Lemon, who came out gay in 2011, confused.
“I wasn't sure exactly what she was
saying, I was like, 'What is she talking about?'” Lemon said in an
episode of Howard Bragman's Gwissues. “At first I was like, 'Did
she or didn't she?' But it was a beautiful speech nonetheless.”
Roberts, who
married his partner in New York last year, was less uncertain,
saying it “certainly wasn't a staying in speech.”
“I don't think anyone can question
where Jodie Foster is in her life,” he said. “This is a woman
who has been in front of the public eye since she was three. She's
50 years old, she's getting a lifetime achievement award, she's lived
her life in a public venue through the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, decade
after decade, and we're all wondering what her personal life is,
waiting for her to make some kind of magnanimous statement about
coming out. So I don't think anyone can discount at this point that
she is announcing that she is a lesbian and she's a happy woman and
she's a mom and she's apparently single.” (The video is embedded
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