He had worked so hard for it. I went there with a buddy of mine. That was the extent of it.
When I go out to sing a spiritual, I dredge up the pain.I wasn't the only one. "I'm not a bubble, but I have fun. 'By the time I left his office, I had made up my mind to marry La-Tanya Mae Sheridan,' Clemmons writes in his memoir.

Fifty years later, Francois Clemmons — author of the new memoir Officer Clemmons — tells PEOPLE exclusively, “I forgive him. We were dancing and sweating.

He offered me a job and I began to think, "He's telling the truth. "That was my first concern, that they were trying to control me.I really had this inner-sense of obligation and commitment and responsibility. He is perhaps best known for his appearances as "Officer Clemmons" on the PBS television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood from 1968 to 1993. We are no longer accepting comments on this article.Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media GroupThank you for flying SpaceX! That's what I had to say to myself: "You have made a mistake, but that doesn't deserve for you to be hung or killed. He's treating me in a way that makes me feel whole, makes me feel like a person, that I'm wanted and needed and cherished." "From then on, if people asked, not very many, I told them yes.Something happens when I go there. Francois Clemmons, best known as Officer Clemmons on children's TV series 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood', has said that TV star Fred Rogers told him to not come out as gay and to marry a woman because if he didn't, it would 'threaten his dream'.Clemmons, 75, described Rogers as both 'my executioner and deliverer' in his upcoming memoir 'Officer Clemmons' as he recalled the late children's TV host telling him he could not be a 'member of the Neighborhood' if he was openly gay.The performer said Rogers confronted him about his sexuality in his studio one day during filming for the show. But I could have the job only if I stayed in the closet,' said Clemmons. 'I relied on the fact that this was his dream. From 1968 to 1993 when he appeared as Officer Clemmons on what would go on to become one of the most influential shows in television history, this fact never changed. I let my guard down. And I went home. It became apparent to me that I had made a serious mistake. 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'Rogers then allegedly said: 'The world doesn't really want to know who you're sleeping with — especially if it's a man. Those words, they haunted me, because I couldn't be wild and crazy.I hadn't had love from a father. The first time, someone told him I had gone to a club down in Pittsburgh called the Play Pen. He would say, "You had a very difficult life, Francois. Lady Aberlin was my big sister. You're a very, very different person when you come off stage. I've never had it. "I said to him, very honestly, "You're a part of it. I have access to the ancestors and I'm a different person. It was so unconditional, so bountiful, that I said, "I can't give that up. He told People magazine he doesn't have any resentment toward his mentor Rogers. I was trying to struggle to get my way through grad school and thought I was going to sink. Hold your head up. I just couldn't make it work.

Now, I want you to know, Franc, that if you're gay, it doesn't matter to me at all. I can trust this man." When I put on my robes and my scepter and my crown, I'm a different person, and I know it. You're one of the reasons I don't act crazy and go off the handle, but I am wounded and I know it." 'I could have his friendship and fatherly love and relationship forever. Plus, I was still married at that time [to Carol Clemmons, whom he divorced in 1974], and I didn’t want my former wife to know where I was. I accepted the generous offer that had been given to me. He would say, "François, what does it feel like to go to bed hungry?" They were both members of the Third Presbyterian Church Choir in Pittsburgh and Joanne brought her husband, The singular mission of François Clemmons' life was to be a professional singer. 'I was destroyed. He always took care of me vocally.It never did. Clemmons divorced Sheridan in 1974 and begin living as an openly gay man. He was raised in Youngstown, Ohio. François Scarborough Clemmons is an American singer, actor, playwright and university lecturer.

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