Morrissey: 'gay' relationship edited from US edition

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Morrissey: 'gay' relationship edited from US edition of autobiography

It was one of the major revelations in Morrissey’s Autobiography when it hit UK shelves in October, but details of The Smiths singer’s gay relationship have reportedly been removed from US editions.

The US release downplays Morrissey's anecdotes about his two-year relationship with photographer Jake Owen Walters, and removed his name from a story about a night out they had together with Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders.

Many other details about the 90s relationship have also been modified for the US version and a photograph of Walters as a young boy is missing.

It is not specifically noted that Morrissey and Walters were lovers in either edition, but the singer makes it clear the pair were involved, each holding a great fondness for the other.

Morrissey has always been secretive about his private life but once described himself as celibate.

In the book, he speaks of how “Jake and I neither sought nor needed company other than our own for the whirlwind stretch to come…for the first time in my life the eternal ‘I’ becomes ‘we’ as, finally, I can get on with someone”.

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