Rock Hudson Secretly Recorded By Wife When Confronted About His Sexuality

A secret recording of Hollywood icon Rock Hudson and his wife having a conversation about his sexuality was released on Thursday harshly highlighting the struggles the two had throughout their marriage.

Today Americans know Hudson was gay and was arranged by his agent to marry his wife, Phyllis.

But the conversations the two had behind closed doors about his sexuality have always been a mystery until The Hollywood Reporter released a transcript of a secret recording of Rock and Phyllis discussing just that.

"Are you fast with the boys?" asked Phyllis.

To which Rock replied: "Boys don't fit. So, this is why it lasts longer."

Responding Phyllis: "Everyone knows that you were picking up boys off the street shortly after we were married and have continued to do so, thinking that being married would cover up for you."

"I have never picked up any boys on the street," Rock said. "I have never picked up any boys in a bar, never. I have never picked up any boys, other than to give them a ride."

Hudson died in the 80s after battling AIDS, and was never able to come out about his sexuality publicly.

In a piece written by the late Roger Ebert summarizing the book "Rock Hudson: His Story" by Sara Davidson, Hudson always wanted to keep the dark things in his life a secret and could have done just that if he had not died in a Paris hospital.

"Knowing he had only weeks or months to live, Hudson and his friends planned a scenario in which he would be taken to a condo in Palm Desert, where a hospice-like environment would be created," the article said. "Male nurses, sworn to secrecy, would care for him and when he died the cause of death would be given out as a heart attack or cirrhosis of the liver."

But Hudson lost consciousness in Paris and was forced to reveal his secret because the hospital that would care for him did not accept AIDS patients, so they made him tell the world, or threatened they would do it for him.

What fans remember of Hudson today was that, while he and Phyllis, had a volatile marriage, he always hoped for love.

"He was basically a very romantic man," Davidson said. "He was like a woman; he'd run and tell his friends he's found someone new that he was in love with. He always believed there was one single right person for him... and he was always looking for that person, and always finding him."