Three years after Anselmo's death, George met his current partner of eight years, Kenny. Unfortunately, in the same phone call to his mother to tell her about the wonderful man he had met, George found out his mother had cancer.
It wasn't until George's arrest for the restroom incident that he was forced to admit the truth about his sexuality to the world. After his arrest, George viewed it as almost a blessing in disguise.
"Part of me was very scared," he says. "I remember sitting there thinking, 'Well, I just have to tell the truth about this.'… I suppose part of my subconscious was saying, 'Well, this is kind of what I was looking for, now I have to deal with it.' … There is something about the fact that it was opposite the Beverly Hills Hotel that indicates I was trying to do it in a "showbiz" manner! … I think part of me was almost ready to deal with it in whatever way it was going to happen. In comparison with the two bereavements that I'd been through before that [deaths of Anselmo and his mother], which were incredibly hellish, it seemed really trivial. I knew it was a massive, very amusing story. It was only about a day until I saw the funny side of it."
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