Billy Eichner

He was older than my mom.

It's a different generation of straight man.

And he wasn't as great overtly with the emotional stuff.

Yeah.

My mom would always get annoyed with him because he wouldn't show me much physical affection.

I didn't care because I could always tell it was so obvious my dad loved me.

But she wanted to see my mom being like a Jewish mother had like, my God, she was constantly hugging me and kissing and everyone, you know, she was like this.

Just it was a flood of affection constantly.

You know, I say in the book, my mom's love was like the sphere in Vegas.

It was an immersive theatrical experience.

It was all over me and under me, you know, at all times.

And that was

Wonderful.

My dad was the opposite.

He wasn't as physically demonstrative and that would piss her off sometimes.

So they had this fight and I witnessed my mom, I must've been 10 or 11 or something like that.

And she's standing over the sink by herself and they'd had this fight, but he'd stopped responding to her.

And she was saying, she was like kind of crying to herself and

And from my bedroom, I used to sit and watch my TV constantly, but there was a door open.

I could see her in the kitchen.