Should Fran Drescher have told anyone about what her ex-husband is doing?”
God must have figured that The Nanny star Fran Drescher already had been through enough — or maybe she would have walked in on her husband in bed with another guy. In 1985, she survived a Los Angeles home invasion in which she was robbed and raped at gunpoint as the burglars forced her husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, to watch. Their life together was never again the same (as she told Larry King in 2002), and they separated in 1996, divorcing three years later, after 21 years of marriage. Her hit sitcom, which Jacobson co-created, produced and wrote (clue, anyone?), must have provided some consolation after years of professional and emotional struggle, but shortly after its 1999 cancellation, Drescher was diagnosed with uterine cancer. She survived that, too, and lived to laugh about it in her memoir Cancer Schmancer. At some point, post-split, her ex-husband, who had been Drescher’s high-school sweetheart, revealed that he is gay. Drescher has known for quite some time, but she recently
If you’re planning to read In Touch Weekly on the beach this weekend, then you might come across the interview the magazine conducted with actress Fran Drescher. In the article, Drescher reveals for the first time that her high school sweetheart and ex-husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, is gay. He came out to Drescher in 1999, after their divorce, according to PopEater. Drescher, who met Jacobson when the two were in high school in Queens, N.Y., has no ill will toward her ex. In fact, she says, according to PopEater, that she’s “blessed” to have him in her life. They remain good friends and continue to work together. I’m happy to hear that their divorce had such a happy ending. Sounds a bit like the Gore’s divorce from earlier this week. How sweet! What I’m really wondering about, however, is how often gay people end up in heterosexual marriages. In this day and age, I would think that those who are gay would just be open about their sexuality and pursue a lifestyle conducive to their wants
