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"Jodie Foster came out as she accepted the Cecil B DeMille Award at Sunday night&amp;#039;s Golden Globes. The veteran actress spoke publicly about her sexuality for the first time and also thanked former partner Cydney Bernard - whom Foster described as her &amp;quot;ex-partner in love but righteous soul sister in life&amp;quot; - during her acceptance speech.      &amp;quot;I guess I have a sudden urge to say something that I&amp;#039;ve never been able to air in public that I&amp;#039;m a little nervous about - but maybe not as nervous as my publicist. So I&amp;#039;m just going to put it out there, loud and proud, right? I&amp;#039;m going to need your support on this,&amp;quot; Foster said, before joking that she is &amp;quot;single&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;I hope you won&amp;#039;t be disappointed that there won&amp;#039;t be a big coming out speech tonight, because I already did my coming out a thousand years ago, back in the Stone Age,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;In those very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to friends and family and co-workers then gradually, proudly to everyone that knew her, everyone she actually met. But now apparently I&amp;#039;m told that every celebrity is to honor the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a primetime reality show.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;You guys might be surprised, but I am not Honey Boo Boo child. That&amp;#039;s just not me. It never was and it never will be. Foster continued by saying: &amp;quot;Seriously, if you had been a public figure from the time that you were a toddler, if you&amp;#039;d had to fight for a life that felt real and honest and normal against all odds, then maybe you too might value privacy above all else. Privacy. &amp;quot;In the future people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was. I have given everything, up there, from the time that I was three years old. That&amp;#039;s reality show enough, don&amp;#039;t you think?&amp;quot; Foster also thanked her mother, who suffers from dementia, and hinted that the speech could mark her retirement from acting. &amp;quot;I may not be up on this stage again - on any stage for that matter,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;Change - you&amp;#039;ve got to love it.&amp;quot; Photo gallery - Golden Globes red carpet in pictures:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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