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James Dean ‘lost his virginity’ to the childhood minister people called Dr Weird

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Dean is believed to have lost her virginity to the man the locals called 'Dr. Weird'.

James Dean confessed to Elizabeth Taylor that he had been sexually abused by his childhood Methodist minister and is now believed to have lost his virginity to the man locals called “Dr. Weird.”

The Reverend James DeWeerd arrived in Fairmount, Indiana, when Dean was still a teenager.

Something of an outsider, the young man had lost his mother to cancer when he was only nine years old and his father, unable (or unwilling) to care for his son, had sent him to Fairmount to live with his Quaker uncles. on his miserable farm.

DeWeerd, on the other hand, 15 years older than Dean, seemed to the locals to be a cultured and worldly person. A former army chaplain, he had spent time studying in England, knew Winston Churchill, and spoke knowledgeably about art, literature, and music.

He also, according to Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean by Jason Colavito, had a predilection for teenagers.

Under the guise of offering spiritual guidance to these young, impressionable teenagers, he took them to the YMCA, visited museums, and allegedly asked them to swim naked with him.

“No child ever accused the pastor of any crime,” Colavito writes, “but decades later, some townspeople looked back and wondered.”

Colavito continues: “Dean was attracted to DeWeerd, the most worldly and sophisticated man he had ever met and someone he felt understood him better than most.

Dean is believed to have lost her virginity to the man the locals called ‘Dr. Weird’.

In a 1997 interview, Elizabeth Taylor talked about confessions Dean made to her while on the set of the movie Giant.

In a 1997 interview, Elizabeth Taylor talked about confessions Dean made to her while on the set of the movie Giant.

‘DeWeerd was happy to do so, seeing in Dean the only boy in town who could genuinely appreciate the higher parts of the culture. They soon developed a friendly relationship.

The couple dined together and discussed philosophy and poetry for hours in the large house the minister shared with his mother, filled with antiques and curiosities and surrounded by sumptuous flower beds.

DeWeerd’s influence is said to have sparked Dean’s passion for theater, auto racing, and bullfighting.

“Jimmy was usually happiest lying on the floor of my library, reading Shakespeare or other books of his choice,” the pastor is quoted as saying. ‘He loved good music playing softly in the background. Tchaikovsky was his favorite.

But, as Colavito points out, the older man was also known for his intense preaching style and fundamentalist religious views.

Dean, plagued by sadness and self-loathing, poured out his heart to his mentor. “He worried that he was evil, that God had punished him for his evil by taking away his mother and driving away his father, and that if anyone knew how evil he must be inside, then no one would ever love him.”

DeWeerd’s advice was harsh, to say the least.

“I taught Jim that he was depraved and vile, that he had to seek salvation,” he said.

Dean, plagued with sadness over his mother's death, opened his heart to his mentor.

DeWeerd taught 'taught Jim that he was depraved and vile, that he had to seek salvation'

Dean (pictured as a child), plagued by self-loathing, opened his heart to his mentor. DeWeerd (right) taught ‘taught Jim that he was depraved and vile, that he had to seek salvation’

James Dean was something of an outsider at school, as he was sent to Fairmount after losing his mother to cancer.

James Dean was something of an outsider at school, as he was sent to Fairmount after losing his mother to cancer.

Giant was Dean's last film; her co-star Rock Hudson is among her rumored affairs

Giant was Dean’s last film; her co-star Rock Hudson is among her rumored affairs

“The nature of Dean’s evil remained between him and DeWeerd,” Colavito writes, “but those who knew Dean felt that DeWeerd’s words alluded to sex.”

Dean became increasingly close to the minister during the last two years of high school and, long after his untimely death in a car accident at the age of 24, just as he was on the verge of becoming a star, the stories Press reports began to suggest their relationship had become sexual around this time.

In fact, in his 1994 book, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Paul Alexander wrote, “In all likelihood, Jimmy lost his virginity to DeWeerd.”

“It began, or so the story went, with some touching during rides in DeWeerd’s convertible,” Colavito says, “and these touching progressed to more sexual intimacies.

“Dean alluded to this only once, years later, when, in a rare unguarded moment one night, he confessed that his minister had sexually abused him.”

In a 1997 interview, Elizabeth Taylor spoke about confessions Dean made to her while on the set of the film Giant, Dean’s final film. But he made the writer promise that the information would remain off the record until after his death.

‘No matter what happened, the two had become emotionally intimate in a way that they both recognized should remain private. Neither of them spoke publicly about their relationship during Dean’s life,” Colavito writes.

“DeWeerd would soon achieve national fame as a radio and television evangelist and preacher, and he had no desire to provoke unwanted questions.”

For his part, Dean always denied being gay and said: ‘I’m not gay.’ But I don’t go through life with one hand tied behind my back either.’

With that, he tacitly acknowledged that he enjoyed relationships with both men and women (his animal magnetism didn’t discriminate) and seemed more than happy to explore all of his sexual options.

Her rumored flings include her Giant co-star Rock Hudson, Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando.

Dean always denied that he was gay and said:

Dean always denied that he was gay, saying, “I’m not gay.” But I don’t go through life with one hand tied behind my back either.

The actor with his Porsche 550 Spyder, the Little Bastard, a few hours before his death. DeWeerd is said to have inspired his love of fast cars.

The actor with his Porsche 550 Spyder, the Little Bastard, a few hours before his death. DeWeerd is said to have inspired his love of fast cars.

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Taylor spoke about the confessions Dean made to her on the set of Giant, but they remained off the record until after his death.

James DeWeerd (right) was one of two ministers who officiated at Dean's funeral.

James DeWeerd (right) was one of two ministers who officiated at Dean’s funeral.

He was also blackmailed into paying off an ex-lover right before his big break because he was terrified of being outed as gay.

He is alleged to have paid $800 to Rogers Brackett in 1954, days before the release of East of Eden, in a deal that remained secret for seven decades.

Dean handed over the money even though he believed Brackett, a wealthy, older advertising executive, had sexually exploited him during their year-long relationship.

However, he also knew that his reputation could have been destroyed as homophobia ran rampant in the United States of the 1950s. So today he paid the equivalent of $14,500 to prevent a “public scandal” and make it go away. .

Dean died on September 30, 1955 in a head-on collision while driving his Porsche 550 Spyder.

James DeWeerd was one of two ministers who officiated at his funeral. He read a poem by John G. Neihardt that includes the following lines: “Let me go quickly, like the light of a candle, extinguished just at the height of its radiance.” Give me full noon and then let it be night! That’s how it would go.

Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean by Jason Colavito is published by Rowman & Littlefield

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