fuckyeahgia:
“I remember her talking, you had to speak into a microphone and she did it,” Dawn recalled. “She was more confident than I would have been. She didn’t stutter the whole time. At the end of these exercises, patients could get up and give you feedback on it. And you couldn’t talk back — you had to give them your attention. Every single person mentioned her being gay, that being gay was her basic problem. They didn’t think she was as okay with it as she claimed to be. Or, well, they tried to make her not okay with it — that’s how I felt. And I think it was because of her looks — the fact that she was a model and the way she looked, that she didn’t look like the stereotype of a lesbian.
[…] That night, she came into the kitchen and I was sitting there. I just started talking to her and told her how I felt. I thought what they had done to her stunk, she didn’t deserve it, and I didn’t see her gayness as being the issue. She was elated that somebody was saying this to her, could understand her. It was like a shock to her.”
— Dawn Phillips on her time with Gia in rehab, from Thing of Beauty by Stephen Fried.
