Barry Manilow reveals why he didn’t come out until he was 73

Barry Manilow
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Barry Manilow says that coming out in his 70s was a “non-event.”

In a recent interview on Max’s Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?, the host asked Manilow about his marriage to high school sweetheart Susan Deixler. The couple married in the early 1960s but separated after a year.

“We had a very nice marriage. It was great, but I was away every night making music, as a young musician would be,” Manilow said. “It wasn’t good for me, and it wasn’t good for her. I couldn’t be a proper husband.”

Wallace asked the “Mandy” singer whether he knew he was gay at the time. “We all do, when we’re five years old or something,” Manilow said, adding that…

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