In her new memoir, “Wicked” star star Cynthia Erivo, 38, opens up being abandoned by her father as a teen.
“I was 16 when he left me, alone, in a London underground station after an argument about a transit pass,” she writes in “ Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who’s Been Told They’re Simply Too Much ” (Flatiron Books, out today). They haven’t spoken since.
She spent years desperate to prove her worth to him, but has finally made peace with his leaving.
“I have come to understand he was never meant to be a dad,” she writes.
Erivo is close with her mother and sister, but she says it’s taken them some time to accept her being queer.
It’s “a territory we’re still navigating,” the Tony award winner writes. As a teen, she realized she was attracted to both men and women, but an unre

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