Jennifer Grey is still most famously associated with her role as Frances "Baby" Houseman in Dirty Dancing and the well-known line, "Nobody puts Baby in the corner." It's fitting that her new autobiography (out on May 3, 2022) is titled Out of the Corner.
Jennifer is getting real about her life, opening up about details that haven't been widely known or thought about for years. One story is about Matthew Broderick's mother and Jennifer's father, actor Joel Grey.
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Jennifer's father came out publicly as gay in 2015, when he was 82 years old. That isn't when Jennifer found out about her father's sexuality, but the story of how she found out is making headlines.
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Jennifer was at the home of her then-boyfriend Matthew Broderick's mother without him one day when his mom turned to her and said, "You know your dad's a [expletive]." Jennifer said that she had no idea.
She explains, "Perhaps she was offended by my lack of knowing. I don't know what she was thinking. She was, um, she was a tricky personality. I don't know how else to put it. Like, she was a truth teller, truth bombs. A Cassandra. She was, like, come what may."
She continued, "She just said whatever she believed was the truth — and perhaps she was doing me a solid. Maybe she thought: Is anybody gonna say what's happening in the world?"
Jennifer goes on to add that her father's sexuality should be something he chooses to speak about and share. She says, "It's really only for him. I'm so exhausted by the reductiveness with which people want to out famous people and decide what people are. Like, who cares! People should feel good. And, besides, I think that sexuality is so much more interesting than gay or straight, bi. And, you know what I think about it all the time: he said my mom was the love of his life and I believe she was."
But in the moment, the words did feel like an attack. "At the time, it was, like, warfare. It was an act of aggression. Perhaps she was offended by the lack of transparency. I don't know what anybody else is thinking. All I know, all I knew at the time was that it felt like it was a sniper attack. The idea was that I was a fool and that everyone knew but me."
