Lana Wachowski, as she appeared in the introduction for the Cloud Atlas trailer. Photo / YouTube
Moviemaker Lana Wachowski has spoken for the first time about her sex change, revealing in a candid new interview that she was initially "terrified" of losing her family.
The Matrix director lived as a man called Larry until 2002 and she only publicly confirmed her gender reassignment in July
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Wachowski, who divorced college sweetheart Thea Bloom in 2002 and went on to marry a second wife, tells the New Yorker magazine she suffered many sleepless nights as she contemplated telling her relatives about her sex change plans.
"For years, I couldn't even say the words transgendered or transsexual," she said.
"When I began to admit it to myself, I knew I would eventually have to tell my parents and my brother and my sisters. This fact would inject such terror into me that I would not sleep for days.''
