Sex and the City star Willie Garson avoided publicly confirming his heterosexuality as he worried it would be interpreted as “offensive”.
Garson portrayed Stanford throughout Sex and the City’s run, with the character marrying one of the show’s other major gay characters, Mario Cantone’s Antony, in 2010 sequel Sex and the City 2.
“For years I didn’t talk about it because I found it to be offensive to gay people,” Garson told Page Six.
Around the time of the show’s airing, however, Garson, would downplay his real-life heterosexuality if he was ever asked about it publicly.