Miss California’s curious family: More gay juice squeezes out
”I did date her. I’m not going to deny it, but I’m not going to say anything else.”
A quote obtained by ABC News from Valerie Vetrano, a lesbian who claims she secretly dated Francine Coppola, the mother of Carrie Prejean. The now infamous beauty queen and her family have been under a media microscope since Prejean told judge Perez Hilton, during the nationally televised Miss USA Pageant, that she was raised to believe marriage is between a man and a woman. Since that time, it has been reported that her parents divorced when she was a child, and that court records allegedly show that some kind of gay accusations were aired at that time; including a note from Prejean’s sister that her father was living with a man who slept with other men. ABC appears to be confirming what originally appeared in Star Magazine. (ABC News)
”Francine explained how she was a Christian and that her loved ones would never accept her if she were gay.”
An unnamed source sharing gossip with the celebrity publication Star Magazine. The tabloid claims to have uncovered a secret side of Carrie Prejean‘s mother, Francine Coppola. Prejean recently went on an anti-gay marriage tour, even lending her face and fame to Maggie Gallagher‘s National Organization for Marriage. NOM is a socially conservative group that regularly turns to national media outlets to distribute its well-funded and disturbingly anti-gay messages. (Star Magazine)
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