John Galliano to Vanity Fair: ‘I was made to believe I wasn’t right’

John Galliano’s redemption media tour is upon us.

Last week, he appeared on “Charlie Rose,” and his full interview with Vanity Fair contributing editor Ingrid Sischy is now online at VanityFair.com.

The British fashion designer was caught on video in a Paris bar in 2010 making anti-Semitic remarks that prompted his ouster from the storied French fashion house of Christian Dior and from his own label in 2011.

In the Vanity Fair interview, Galliano speaks about his difficult childhood. “If I didn’t already sense that I was different, I certainly was reminded, whether by my parents or by the other school kids. Not just reminded. Told ... I was made to believe I wasn’t right. If I went a little bit too off -- slap! It was Dad’s upbringing and it was Victorian, and that’s the way he was.”

The designer goes on to say he never came out to his father. “I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, ‘I’m gay.’ I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings.”

At school, things weren’t much better. “I would work out what earlier trains to get and what carriages to ride in to not be beaten by the boys. Hiding the bruises, hiding the cuts, going home and not being able to talk about it, because if I did I would get another good beating.”

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