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What Prompted Jodie Foster's Lesbo Breakup? Come Guess With Me

Posted by Michael Musto at 9:00 AM, May 16, 2008

If it's true, as wags have reported, that Jodie Foster and longtime girlfriend Cydney Bernard have parted gay ways while ceasing to part each other's curtains, I've boiled the upshot down into three possible sapphic scenarios.

Worst Case: After Jodie thanked "my beautiful Cydney" at a luncheon last year, her handlers freaked and told her to shut the fuck up about her diesely dykedom—and in fact to give the girlfriend (and co-parent of their kids) the dykey dump. Jodie, a real class act, proceeded to do so.

Best Case: After Jodie thanked "my beautful Cydney" at a luncheon last year, she seemed to be edging towards acknowledging her partner in public rather than keeping her in a dank closet. But of course that never happened. Jodie went on to backtrack by publicly making Cydney invisible, giving emphatic interviews about how she's never been in love. As a result, Cydney—tired of subjugating her entire identity for this impossible situation—bolted for the dykey door in frustration and BECAME invisible.

Or Maybe: Cydney was already starting to stray when Jodie made that remark. The comment was Jodie's desperate pat on Cydney's back, a brazen attempt to flatter her into staying put. Like Nim's Island, it just didn't work.

Any other guesses?

more: closet talk

comments

I always think the worst case scenario is the true one.

Posted by: debbie downer at May 16, 2008 9:48 AM

What a ridiculous article.

Posted by: Mari at May 16, 2008 10:20 AM

What a moronic comment. Could you try to be a little more articulate about why you find this so ridiculous?

Posted by: hedy at May 16, 2008 10:32 AM

how can she be gay!!!

Posted by: vanessa at May 16, 2008 10:52 AM

how can she be gay!!!

Posted by: vanessa at May 16, 2008 10:52 AM

you know MM here and a few others weren't happy with the subdued acknowledgement when JF acknowledged her significant other. Maybe they were on the skids at the time or were negotiating the break-up instead of pondering how to comeout. Love hurts bitches...

Posted by: Bindi the jungle GURL at May 16, 2008 11:26 AM

I think it was an argument about the content of one of Jodie's commencement addresses - like the one she gave to the University of Pennsylvania in 2006 - "How will your experience pave the way for a new voice in America? I hope it will take you out these doors, out into the open air. You will breathe it into your lungs and say, " From now on, this life will be what I stand for...Move over-this is my story now."

Sounds a little empty to me, conmsidering.

Posted by: Tim at May 16, 2008 11:27 AM

Are there really paople out there who DIDN'T know that she's gay?!?!?!

Posted by: Maggie at May 16, 2008 11:29 AM

Foster Foul play

Posted by: Mitzi Gaynor, Gwen Verdon & Norma Desmond at May 16, 2008 11:46 AM

maybe it's just none of our business!

Posted by: rara at May 16, 2008 12:04 PM

Who cares, what is this obsession with peoplethinking they should be involved with other's private lives?
Good for her for keeping her private life private and for being a classy lady!
If true, I hope she finds happiness again.

Posted by: Donna at May 16, 2008 12:25 PM

She looks like a gay.

Posted by: Vink at May 16, 2008 12:33 PM

"maybe it's just none of our business!" -
Yeah, and your point is?

Posted by: Tim at May 16, 2008 12:55 PM

I love it when people who scour the gossip pages all day then say "Who cares?" about gossip. Of course this only happens when it's a gay star. Any gay gossip is just too offensive, you know. And when they're in the closet, these gossip scavengers then say "She's a classy lady!" Fuck off!!!

Posted by: lulu de la malaise at May 16, 2008 2:59 PM

This opens the door, I think, for Jodie to have a very meaningful relationship with another non-gay female like Whitney Houston or Anne Heche or Liz Smith (as appalling as that thought is). Not that any of this is any of my business. Jodie IS a classy lady, Donna, and those are exactly the kind of women you find in bed with tattooed bull dagger truck drivers. I should know!

Posted by: The Late Tallulah Bankhead at May 16, 2008 3:52 PM

Jody Foster is lovely to look at. True story, many years ago when I worked at a law firm in Los Angeles, she got on the elevator with me, she is short that is true, but that face, not a stich of make-up and just beautiful, large liquid blue eyes, flawless skin, the mouth was a little tight, you can tell she is holding it in, whatever it was. At that time I knew she was gay, and she looked at me, I thought rather seductively, honey if she would have said anything to me I would have been on it. Just for the experience mind you. Of course, I must confess this was a while back, when I was looked at that way, if you know what I mean. Now I am a middle aged mother of 5. Maybe I should have gone with Jody. I would love to live in her closet.

Posted by: Pantera Lilly at May 16, 2008 6:14 PM

Well Musto you have officially hit a new low.

Posted by: at May 16, 2008 8:45 PM

Although they met on the set of Sommersby, Cydney had never actually seen the final cut, until now ...

Posted by: Reeve at May 16, 2008 9:23 PM

Musto, a new low, even for you...

Posted by: Grissy at May 17, 2008 6:22 PM

Jodie is a class act and a very smart person. She has the right to love who she wants to. I think we the fans, press and general public should seperate the artist works from there private lives and keep our noses, eyes and ears out of there private lives.

Posted by: bill at May 17, 2008 6:25 PM

jodie baby... single finally..
c'mon to pennsylvania. i'll make you dinner.

Posted by: christine at May 17, 2008 8:13 PM

"How can she be gay"?

Hm, eating lots of pussy, for starters?

Posted by: Lily at May 17, 2008 10:32 PM

How is this "a new low"? You have not been paying attention! ;-)

Posted by: David at May 17, 2008 11:30 PM

Light it up, she is a celebrity.

Posted by: eve25 at May 18, 2008 3:15 AM

Maybe.. they grew apart. Fell out of love.
Maybe one of them did. Maybe they both did. Things change. Is that so hard to believe?

Posted by: Catherine at May 18, 2008 8:03 AM

Is there a heretofore unknown crossover of Clay Aiken and Jody Foster fans? Why are all these staunchly defensive and rabid deniers acting so offended about a sleb? They don't know you, don't care about you and are as phony as the day is long. Trashing media types is the gay equivalent of sports. Get over that fact that we love doing it. As if the slebs are in any way as hyper-sensitive as the fans who over react to tis jizz!

Posted by: Tim at May 18, 2008 10:50 AM

Or maybe, just maybe, they are actually really normal people with really normal problems. It is none of our business.

Posted by: Jennifer at May 18, 2008 7:12 PM

Then DON'T read and comment on columns like this. That is the entire point. It IS none of our business, but we do it anyway, just like people who comment in defense of them. Sheesh.

Posted by: Tim at May 18, 2008 9:36 PM

Uh-oh. The "it's none of our business" trolls are coming out of the woodwork. Funny, this happens every time i write that somene's gay.

Posted by: musto at May 18, 2008 9:39 PM

She's just waiting for her one true love... Can you guess who that might be?

Posted by: John at May 18, 2008 11:24 PM

ET?

Posted by: scruffy at May 19, 2008 3:35 AM

ET?

Posted by: scruffy at May 19, 2008 3:35 AM

Maybe she will give Joan Jett a call to get back on her back.I would gladly Tongue Fuck her Pussy:)

Posted by: at May 19, 2008 6:27 AM

"She looks like a gay"

LOL......what do you think "a gay" looks like !!

Posted by: at May 19, 2008 9:29 AM

I thought from the beginning, even before the break up that the shout out was Jodie's desperate pat on Cydney's back. I think Cydney was probably very upset that they weren't out and about as a couple. I'm certain it was a real bone of contention between them and Cydney finally walked, tired of accepting crumbs. Jodi is smart and talented but she was always a weird duck.

Posted by: Liz at May 19, 2008 7:08 PM

You're a journalist? You're awful; you're not articulate, you're disgusting and cruel. How do you expect others not to bash gays when you can't even help yourself? You are a VERY VERY small man who contributes to the hate in this world. Your blurb has made today a sad sad day. "Pathetic excuse for a human you are." - Yoda

Posted by: Straight Liberated Woman at May 20, 2008 1:21 AM

E.T.!! Scruffy, you mean you don't know the answer? Fuck! I guess I wasted that shitload of bullets for nothing: & I didnt even succeed in offing Reagan! Goddammit I suck!!

Posted by: John(GaydarMalfunction)Hinckley at May 20, 2008 3:28 AM

Straight Liberated Woman,
shouldn't you be giving your husband a blow job instead of bothering us gays?

Begone, you have no power here!

Posted by: GiorgioNYC at May 20, 2008 10:47 AM

It's bashing gays to just talk about them? Presumably it isn't bashing straights to just talk about them or else why are you even reading a gossip columnist in the first place? And why are celeb lives not our business only if they're gay lives?

How sick and twisted. Newsflash: there are gays in the world. Catch up to the 20th Century, already!

Posted by: whatevernevermind at May 20, 2008 8:43 PM

I'll settle all of this by tossing all three of those vulva vixens a piece of my bone. Just kidding. I'm a gay guy.

Posted by: crotchpheasant at May 21, 2008 8:47 PM

Maybe they don't like eachother any more.

Posted by: Sweetil at May 21, 2008 10:42 PM

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