Billy Eichner
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It was a very small apartment.
We lived on top of each other.
We heard everything, saw everything.
She was crying to herself.
She was saying, crying out to my dad, like, can't you see I'm lonely?
I'm sad.
And he did not respond.
And I witnessed that as a kid.
And...
Part of me was mad because I didn't like when she was on the pills.
It would change her personality.
But even then, as a kid, maybe gay kids are just smarter.
Or maybe because they let me watch so much adult theater and movies, I kind of had an insight into adulthood.
I don't know if... Maybe all kids do.
I don't know.
I was never another kid.
But I...
I could see her.
It was almost like I was watching her as one of these characters in one of these more adult movies I'd watched, like a Woody Allen movie or something a bit more sophisticated where you were dealing with midlife people in pain or something.
And I could tell that the emotions she was expressing were honest.