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 while promoting new Tom Hanks film Cloud Atlas.
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.''
