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Loni Anderson died on Sunday, August 3, just a few days before her 80th birthday
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The actress, especially known for WKPR CincinnatiWas married to Burt Reynolds for five years, adopted a son with him and had an untidy, public divorce
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Both Anderson and Reynolds who died in 2018 at the age of 82
Burt Reynolds And Loni Anderson Were one of the largest couples from Hollywood in the 1980s.
The two actors were married for five years from 1988 to 1993 and together for 11 years. But the relationship “no lollipops and roses”, as Reynolds said in 2015.
In fact, it was something that he had to marry at all as “A really stupid move from my part. “
“I should have known that they don't marry an actress,” he said.
The news from Anderson's death on August 3Just a few days before her 80th birthday and almost seven years later Reynolds died in 2018 with 82We look back on your turbulent marriage – and the messy divorce that followed.
The couple began to date in 1982 to date a year after their meeting.
At this point, WKRP in CincinnatiWhat Anderson had made a well -known name was completed after four seasons, and Reynolds had just been able to play his most famous role in the role Smokey and Bandit II.
When they started to go out, Reynold's separation separated from Sally Field, dem He later called the love of his lifeWas still fresh, which hesitated him to jump too far into things with Anderson.
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Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson visit the 43rd annual prime time Emmy Awards nominated cocktail reception on August 20, 1991
“The most difficult lesson I ever had to learn in my life was that the person they fall in love with the worst person with whom they can spend the rest of their lives,” he told people in a title story from 1982. “It takes a real adult to say … 'We have to go our separate ways, although I love you and you love me.'”
When he continued with Anderson, he said: “Of course I would make room for the marriage if I were in love and wanted to get married and have children. I would take place and do the best job that I could be a good father and a good husband. But that doesn't happen.”
Instead, Reynolds said he “had no idea” if things were “going” with Anderson. He focused more on trying to get to know each other and like [Anderson] Without too many explosions and broad sides from the press. “
Anderson also hesitated about him, in the face of “all these boulevard newspapers”, as she said in 1989. “When I met him, I saw that he was so different. He is a calm, introspective man with very deep feelings.
Five years later, they were married in a highest -heated ceremony on his ranch in Jupiter, Florida.
“I'm a very happy man,” he said at the reception when he celebrated that he “married my best friend today”. Anderson, on his part, said that she felt like “Cinderella” with Reynolds as her personal “Prince Charming”.
Robby Benson, who was among the 65 guests at the wedding, said to the people at the time that everyone was “cried” during the ceremony. “It couldn't have been more lovable. They looked like the perfect couple, as they see on a wedding cake, only bigger.”
Reynolds later claimed that his mother was against the relationship right from the start.
“I went along the passage and Perry Como went with me. [My mother was] Shake your head “no,” he said Health of men 2016 “I didn't pay attention, but my mother was always right.”
Loni Anderson and Burt Reynolds on the cover of People Magazine – May 16, 1988
The couple founded a family in 1989 when a 14 -month -old son, Quinton, adopted, the one who remained Reynolds' only child.
After adoption, the actor said to people: “I never knew that I could fall in love with someone as I fell in love with Quinton.”
A family also made feelings for her husband grow. “Loni said something very sweet: 'I fall in love with you again when I see you with Quinton,” said Reynolds. “I feel just as much about her.”
Starting a family did not help her marriage.
In his memoirs from 2015, Reynolds claimed that Anderson had spent too much money while they were together.
“She bought everything triple, from everyday clothes to jewelry to China and bed linen.” I never wear a dress after it has been photographed ” But enough about me. “I gave her a Platinum American Express card with a credit limit of 45,000 US dollars. She maximized it in half an hour.”
Frank Trapper/Corbis about Getty Loni Anderson and Burt Reynolds took part in the 44th Emmy Awards in 1992
Anderson painted a similar picture of him. In the documentation 2023 I am Burt ReynoldsShe claimed that if her ex “earned $ 100, he spent $ 100”.
A failed investment in a restaurant chain finally cost Reynolds 13 million US dollars, which he paid out by signing his film and television theater.
Anderson allegedly blinded the divorce, although this was not a narrative with which Reynolds had ever agreed.
In I am Burt ReynoldsShe said she just spent a weekend with Reynolds and Quinton Nurses When she handed unexpected divorce papers in 1993. She claimed that he had told her only two hours earlier: “You know I love you forever.”
It was a narrative that she maintained throughout the divorce process. “There was no signs of dissatisfaction or discussion about divorce or separation,” she said Good housekeeping. “I had no idea. There was a problem in our marriage.”
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In the meantime, Reynold's representative said “irretrievably broken” in the meantime.
“[While Reynolds has] The greatest respect and the highest consideration of Miss Anderson, he believes that his and her priorities have become different, “the explanation says.
Reynolds claimed that Anderson was unfaithful to what she was playing, and finally he admitted his own infidelity.
He said about during an interview Good morning America: evening edition That he was “so unhappy” with Anderson and “she” cheated on me “, which prompted him to” call it up “. It was her unfaithfulness that he was on, he said.
He told that Enquirer That he had a two-year affair with a cocktail lounge manager named Pam Seals, while Anderson continued to refuse such an infidelity of her part: “I have never looked at another man.”
Years earlier, in 1989, he had clearly said about his dirty romantic history: “Loni could have left me millions and she would have been smart.”
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After years of the mother about the divorce and claimed her ex wanted a “war” with her and claimed in 1995 that Reynolds had misused what she told Sfgate They “always blamed the drugs”.
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Loni Anderson and actor Burt Reynolds take part in the 43rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards on August 25, 1991
A month before her separation, she claimed that the actor “pushed me around the room, then thrown me to the ground and opened the drawer and released a loaded weapon. He gave me the gun and told me that I should shoot myself and do all of us a favor.”
“I'm afraid,” she said to The Outlet. “Burt always said nobody would ever believe me because he was Mr. Wonderful and the world loved him.”
In response to the allegations, a representative of Reynolds said that he “had no comment” and wished his ex “nothing but the best”.
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