'Elvira' star Cassandra Peterson reveals 19-year relationship with woman

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark actress Cassandra Peterson is being “truthful” about aspects of her love life she hasn't revealed before.

Peterson writes in "Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark" that she first laid eyes on Teresa "T" Wierson while working out at Gold's Gym in Hollywood. She was attracted to the trainer's "dark and brooding" looks, initially thinking Wierson was a male.

"Often, when I was doing my preworkout warm-up on the treadmill, I couldn't help noticing one particular trainer — tan, tattooed, and muscular — stalking across the gym floor, knit cap pulled so low over his long brown hair that it nearly covered his eyes," she explains via People magazine.