Perez Hilton | Conversations with Maria Menounos | July 9, 2013

In this episode, Extra host Maria Menounos sits down with infamous gossip columnist Mario Lavandeira Jr, aka Perez Hilton. They discuss Hilton’s childhood in Miami, growing up with Cuban immigrant parents and when he began to realize he was different. Hilton opens up about his parents attempt to send him to a psychologist, possibly to be “cured“ of his homosexuality at a young age, and the resilience that got him a free ride to the famed Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. They discuss his first jobs, his batt