Fred Tillman is a salesman and the ex-husband of Kelly McGillis an American actress. The former couple got married in 1989 and together they had two now-adult daughters.
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Just after Kelly McGillis had given birth to their second daughter, her husband Fred Tilman was arrested for soliciting sex from a prostitute who turned out to be an undercover policewoman.
By this time, the couple had moved to Key West in Florida and opened up a bar, called Kelly’s, where she met bartender Melanie Leis. They hit it off, but together they became self-destructive.
“We were partners in crime and were both drinking and abusing drugs,” said Leis, who is openly gay.
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They got sober, McGillis divorced Tillman in 2002 and the actress dropped out of Hollywood to raise her girls as a single mother alongside Leis in rural Pennsylvania.
In an interview with she the New York Times. Kelly revealed that she never hid her sexuality from her husband. “Deep inside I always knew it wasn’t the truth.”
“I was never dishonest with Fred about my past and history, but it was a big struggle with me.”
Eventually, the couple moved to New Jersey, where the actress took a job as a counsellor, working with alcoholics and drug addicts at a nearby rehab facility. She also became a volunteer prison visitor.
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