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During his set, he received big laughs from the audience describing the first time he performed oral sex on a man.

In September of 1977, he was invited to speak at a benefit at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles to oppose Proposition Six, a Californian anti-gay initiative. “I love strong, smart woman, but I feel inadequate to them,” Pryor admitted to PEOPLE in 1978. For instance, his relationship with Grier ended after, among other transgressions, she beat him twice in tennis. In addition to the drug and alcohol abuse, his breakups and outbursts were often linked to his own insecurities. Before he had a career breakdown in 1968, he was snorting $100 of cocaine a day, had been arrested for assault and battery, sued for wife-beating and accused of stabbing a landlord with a fork and of beating a hotel clerk, PEOPLE reported. Pryor, who also struggled with drug and alcohol abuse throughout his life, “was repeatedly in trouble for beating up women,” according to the New Yorker. For some reason, I didn’t care … But after two weeks of being gay … I went back to life as a heterosexual.” He described the affair in his autobiography, writing, “I discovered that she was actually a he.

He also had affairs with various film stars like Pam Grier and Margot Kidder, and one with a drag queen he said looked like Josephine Baker.

He had two children during that time, Renée, daughter of his girlfriend Susan when Pryor was 17, and a son Richard with Price. His first marriage to Patricia Price lasted from 1960-1961, and then from 1969 to 1978 he had three serious relationships, including two two-year marriages to Shelley Bonus and Deborah McGuire. After preparing a lifetime for this moment, I suddenly had nothing to say.” Pryor wrote that he shook both their hands and “hoped the boy fared better.”Īlthough he sometimes dismissed the damage caused by his childhood traumas, his future relationships were often chaotic and short-lived. “The boy was about the same age I’d been when his father raped me … I couldn’t believe it. “I was seized by that old sense of fear,” he wrote in his autobiography Pryor Convictions. After he became famous, the man came to his trailer on a film set with his son and asked for his autograph. At the age of six, Pryor was sexually abused by a young man from the neighborhood.