Rory O'Neill AKA Panti
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And that's helped her then sort of square these things away.
But then also, we sat on her bed in the middle of the afternoon and talked about it.
And that's when she said the line about myself and my brother, like, two exotic birds just dropped down on top of us.
Which is a beautiful line.
Yeah, it is.
My mother's a very, you know, she likes to write poems and all.
What age is your mother now?
I want to say 86, is she?
It sneaks up on you.
My dad drove in, coming home for his lunch, and she went out and met him and told him, before he came in, that I was gay.
And he came in and he acted like...
Absolutely nothing to him.
It was just, it didn't, it meant nothing.
He said, well, don't be worried about it, because I think, what's for lunch?
And we suddenly had lunch.
And for years afterwards, I didn't believe him.
I thought, he's bullshitting this.
He's seen that my mother's upset.
And so he's downplaying it for her benefit because how could he possibly be that unbothered?