In the upcoming HBO docuseries 'Pee-wee as Himself', which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, Paul Reubens recalls the "painful" memory of being falsely labeled a "pedophile" following his two arrests.

"Pee-wee Herman" star Paul Reubens, who died in 2023, has posthumously revealed he was gay in a new documentary unveiled at Sundance Film Festival.

Culled from 40 hours of interviews and thousands of hours of archival footage, Matt Wolf's doc gives Paul Reubens his own posthumous spotlight.

I want to set the record straight on a couple of things, and that’s it.” So says Paul Reubens - better remembered by many viewers as offbeat children’s entertainer Pee-Wee Herman - at the outset of “Pee-Wee as Himself,

HBO documentary "Pee-wee as Himself" finds Paul Reubens addressing his complicated past in candid, heartbreaking form.

I was secretive about my sexuality even to my friends… [out of] self-hatred or self-preservation,” the late actor said in an interview with HBO.

Paul Reubens, the man who created and inhabited the beloved, iconic character Pee-wee Herman, has posthumously come out as gay in a new two-part documentary about his life. Pee-wee as Himself, directed by Matt Wolf and distributed by HBO,