Posted on 02/04/2003 4:44:50 PM PST by uncbuck
PARIS -- Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein has split from his longtime gay lover after a bitter public spat -- and now the flamboyant dictator's ex-boyfriend is telling all the juicy details of the breakup!
"Saddam treated me like dirt," angry Terry Hammell, now 36, said in a world-exclusive interview. "He used me as a sexual plaything for years and then, when he decided I was getting too old, he tossed me aside like some used Kleenex. He just broke my heart."
Spurned Terry cataloged his much-older lover's misdeeds, claiming that Saddam:
Forced him to dress up for bizarre "role play" games, including "Cellmates in a Turkish Prison," "Patient and Nurse" and "Sultan and Harem Boy." Subjected him to "daily bare-bottomed spankings." Made him work out four hours a day to maintain a lean, sexy body. Cheated on him repeatedly with hunky soldiers from the elite Republican Guard. Verbally abused him when he gained weight, mockingly calling him "my little sow." Infected him with at least three sexually transmitted diseases. French-born Terry says that when the relationship began well over a decade ago, he thought he'd met the man of his dreams.
"I was just 25 at the time and I was flattered by the attention," he says.
"We would walk hand in hand in the palace gardens and make love on the rooftop under the stars. Or sometimes we'd just take bubble baths together and watch old gladiator movies.
"It didn't bother me that Saddam insisted on staying in the closet. I knew he had his macho image to maintain and I was content to stay in the background."
But the romance began to sour as Terry hit 30 and started losing his youthful waistline.
"For a long time, I tried to ignore the lustful looks Saddam gave troops on parade, and the rumors that he was sleeping with several of his handsome military aides," he says.
But it became impossible to ignore the gossip when, in December, Terry caught the tubby, mustachioed despot romancing a rosy-cheeked young corporal under his desk.
That night, the sweethearts had an angry confrontation at a packed diplomatic ball.
"I accused Saddam flat out of cheating on me -- and he slapped me right in the face," recalls Terry. "As I stood there, crying my eyes out, he called me a 'silly @#$*&.'
"He said he was the most powerful man in the Middle East and would sleep with whoever he pleased. I finally ran out, weeping."
Fearing reprisals, Terry fled the country and has taken refuge in his native Paris.
Not that it actually prevents it...NAMBLA is kind of a pervasive cultural thing over there.
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