Elliot Page opens up about secret romances, being misunderstood by close friends and finding his true self in his memoir Pageboy. See the biggest revelations:
, which he recalls as an “overwhelming” period of his life.
“She has been someone that I could rely on and go to without question. Since I've met her, she's one of the closest people to me in my life. And one of those people who you don't really know who you'd be without,” Page wrote of Keener, 64. In addition to dishing on his relationship with Mara, Page opened up about his secret romance with a costar — whom he calls “Ryan” — which involved secretly holding hands on set.
“Ultimately, I do think she loved me. We loved each other and that was very real in our bubble. It was fantastic. You know, it was really beautiful. I admired her and how she inspired me in many ways. But feeling hidden was far too painful. That was impossible and not a sustainable relationship at all. And it taught me that I was not gonna do that again,” he wrote. Before his transition, Page “used to look at people and wonder how they were so comfortable.
“The most painful point for me was having the drains removed. Massive needle after massive needle to freeze around the tiny holes under my pits. The nurse stood beside me, speaking calmly as I tried to let go, to embrace the hurt,” theThe pain of the procedure became worth it once Page was free of the compression vest and the bandages. “When the vest was gone and the nipple bandages done … well, I have no words for that,” he wrote.
“‘Wow, one of my best friends is trans?!’ a bosom buddy said in response to me being me,” he wrote. “’I guess that is just something you don’t make a comment about,’ one of my dearest friends said on the heels of a long pause after I shared my decision to get top surgery, one of the first people I told. She most certainly made ‘a comment’ without ‘making a comment’ and proceeded to make more, offering her opinion unprompted. I couldn’t talk to her for a long time.
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