Author: Alexia Fernandez / Source: PEOPLE.com
Three years before his death, Burt Reynolds expressed his regret at marrying actress Loni Anderson.
The actor, who died at Jupiter Medical in Florida on Thursday morning at the age of 82, told PEOPLE in a revealing 2015 interview that marrying Anderson in 1988 “was a really dumb move on my part.”
“I should have known that you don’t marry an actress,” the star said at the time. “It wasn’t lollipops and roses.
”Expanding on what tore the two apart in his memoir But Enough About Me, Reynolds wrote of Anderson, “She bought everything in triplicate, from every day dresses to jewelry to china and linens. ‘I never wear a dress after it has been photographed,’ she said. ‘I have to dress like a star.’”
He added, “I gave her a platinum American Express card with a $45,000 credit limit. She maxed it out in half an hour.”
How They Met
Reynolds and Anderson met in 1981 and began dating one year later. The two became a Hollywood power couple as they graced magazine covers and attended red carpets together.
In June 1982, The Longest Yard actor told PEOPLE, “Whether this relationship will go any further than it has right now, I have no idea. Loni and I are both trying very hard to get acquainted and to like each other without too many explosions and broadsides from the press.”
The couple married in 1988 during a top-secret ceremony at his ranch in Jupiter, Florida, which was documented by PEOPLE.
“I’m a very lucky man,” he said at the reception, which followed a 20-minute ceremony. “I’m surrounded by love and dear friends, and I married my best friend today.”
Anderson added, “I feel like Cinderella. I married Prince Charming.
” The two later adopted their son, Quinton Reynolds.Their Shocking Split
Despite building a family together, the tides in their marriage turned by June 1993 when Reynolds announced the pair’s shocking split.
His rep at the time announced the couple’s marriage was “irretrievably broken” adding that though Reynolds had “the highest respect and regard for Miss. Anderson… he feels his priorities and…
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