Mister Rogers’ Surprising Relationship with His Costar Officer Clemmons

“I didn’t know what I was so hungry for, until I heard Fred Rogers say, ‘I love you,’ ” remembers Francois Clemmons, in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE.
“When I was growing up, men were rough and macho — you had to be a ‘man.’ I didn’t fit any of that,” he says.
Clemmons — better known as Officer Clemmons, the opera singing cop on Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood for 25 years — had escaped a tortuous childhood by the