As the creator of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, the era-defining comedy-horror TV and film character, reveals in the new book, she has dated Teresa “T” Wierson for 19 years. What do we know about Cassandra?
Cassandra met Teresa for the first time in 2000.
Teresa and Cassandra first met at the Hollywood Gold’s Gym. As she explains in Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark, she first mistook Teresa for a man.
“Often, when I was doing my pre-workout 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 writes, per People.
“A typical sexy bad boy, he was unaware he was so charismatic that he’d garnered his unofficial fan club. Watching him from the safety of my treadmill made my heart beat faster and the time pass much more quickly.”
Cassandra and Teresa started training together, becoming close friends along the way. In the book, she describes how they worked out together for six years. Teresa asked to let her move in while she worked through a personal crisis. “There on the doorstep stood my trainer, “T” [Teresa], holding a trash bag full of her belongings, looking sad and bedraggled,” Cassandra said, describing Teresa’s arrival at her home, per HITC.
Cassandra and Mark Pierson, her husband of 22 years, parted ways in the early 2000s. On February 14, 2003, their divorce was finalized. Cassandra soon learned that Teresa was good with kids — and she was particularly good with her and Mark’s only daughter, Sadie.
A Turning Point
“After coming home from a movie, I told her goodnight and suddenly felt compelled to kiss her on the mouth,” She writes. “As shocked as she was, I think I was even more surprised.” Teresa, later on, became Cassandra’s assistant, per Daily Mail. “For the first time in my life, I’m with someone who makes me feel safe, blessed, and truly loved,” Cassandra writes about this in her memoir.