The secret life of Wesley Eure: The Days of Our Lives star was 'fired from the soap for being gay' and boasted that Hollywood legend Richard Chamberlain was a 'wonderful lover'
Former Days of Our Lives star Wesley Eure believes he was fired from the iconic U.S. soap for being gay, claims Hollywood journalist Craig Bennett.
In his new book, True Confessions of a Shameless Gossip, Craig details his friendship with Wesley, who played Mike Horton on Days of Our Lives from 1974 to 1981.
Although Wesley publicly stated at the time that he quit the show because of the tiring workload, he had actually been fired and suspected it was due to his sexuality.
Bombshell claims: Former Days of Our Lives star Wesley Eure (pictured) believes he was 'fired from the soap for being gay'
'Wesley told me he suspected he'd been fired because he was gay,' Craig writes.
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'As he explained, he didn't flaunt his homosexuality but he refused to hide it, and so other big-name and very closeted stars on the show perhaps felt uneasy and feared he might out them.'
In a 'coming out' interview with New Now Next in 2009, Wesley himself claimed that he was sacked from Days of Our Lives for being gay and that his sexuality had hurt his career in Hollywood.
Flashback: Wesley was an A-lister in the 1970s thanks to roles in Days of Our Lives and Land of the Lost. Pictured: Wesley in Land of the Lost in the early '70s
'No one would ever say [I was sacked for being gay] because that would be a lawsuit,' Wesley said at the time.
'It was all kept under the table, but through the makeup artists who worked on Days of Our Lives, I'm still in touch with a lot of the people from the show. The real reason was because I was gay.'
During his stint on the daytime soap, Wesley secretly dated Hollywood legend Richard Chamberlain from 1975 to 1976.
'The real reason was because I was gay': Wesley, now 67, claims his sexuality was the reason he was fired from Days of Our Lives. Pictured on set in 1977
Secret romance: Wesley dated Hollywood legend Richard Chamberlain from 1975 to 1976. Pictured: Richard at the 1993 Golden Globes in Los Angeles
Craig also touches upon the relationship in his book, claiming that Wesley had boasted about Richard's skills as a lover.
'Richard was nearly 20 years older,' writes Craig. 'Wesley explained that for him, Richard was not only a wonderful lover and a mentor to a young actor, but also a "father figure" - Wesley had been abandoned by his own father when he was a tot.
'He said he loved Richard deeply and they lived together secretly for a year, and how Hollywood would have been mortified if word had gotten out.
'He loved Richard deeply': Wesley described Richard as a 'wonderful lover', according to journalist Craig Bennett. Pictured: Richard at the Twin Peaks premiere in Los Angeles in 2017
'I remember Wesley had tears in his eyes as he revealed that Richard had broken his heart by falling in love with another man.'
That 'other man' was actor and producer Martin Rabbett, whom Richard later married in a civil union in 1984.
Richard officially came out as a gay man in his 2003 autobiography, Shattered Love.
Read all about it! Get all of Craig Bennett's Hollywood confessions in his new autobiography
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