For Joan Collins, the fifth time’s the charm.
The “Dynasty” star married husband no. 5 – producer Percy Gibson – in 2002. And after kissing loads of frogs, Collins believes she has finally found her prince.
“To begin with, we were great pals before we got married,” the actress explained to Fox News Digital. “We worked together on a play… We enjoyed one another’s company. We frolicked together. And we saw one another the next 12 months. We wrote love letters – it was a gradual thing. And we realized that we were very much on the identical wavelength.”
“He’s a very nice, kind, grounded person,” the 90-year-old shared. “Lots of the those who I’ve been with – and I’m not going to specify which of them – have been either neurotic, barely unbalanced, or gotten into various things.”
Collins recently shared her love story with Gibson, 58, in a latest memoir, “Behind the Shoulder Pads: Tales I Tell My Friends.” It details her decades-long profession in Hollywood.
Critics have previously identified the couple’s 32-year age gap. But for Collins, it’s “only a number.” She noted that it’s “never too late” to seek out love at any stage in life.
“That’s how we each feel,” she explained. “And we were friends first, above the rest.”
She noted that they each share the identical drive, which has been a part of the key behind their lasting union.
“I used to be born with an incredible enthusiasm for all times,” she said. “My mother used to say that I never kept still after I was a toddler. I used to do five various things without delay. I can be doing a crossword puzzle, making a doll’s house, reading, painting, attempting to grow to be a detective – !”
“Life is a present,” she stressed. “That’s why they call it the current – it’s a present. And so many individuals waste it. It’s so sad. It’s a present, and it doesn’t last for a very long time.”
Within the book, Collins wrote that Gibson wasn’t concerned concerning the age difference because “I actually have great vitality and enthusiasm for all times and all it has to supply.”
“Percy often admits that I can wear him out!” she wrote.
Today, Collins has no regrets – even after she and her former fiancé Warren Beatty called it quits. Collins and Beatty began dating in 1959 and were engaged a 12 months later before splitting.
“We were each too young, too selfish, too ambitious,” Collins reflected. “It just wasn’t right. I mean, I’ve had a whole lot of relationships. I had a whole lot of marriages. They don’t last. Luckily, you become older, and I met the person who’s the proper person for me for the remaining of my life. We’ve been together ever since. And we’re very, very happily married.”
“Breakups occur,” Collins shrugged. “It could occur based on various things.”
Within the book, Collins claimed that when she told Beatty she was pregnant, her then-beau told her she needed to get an abortion to guard their Hollywood careers. Despite the fact that they were already engaged, Collins said she wasn’t a fan of shotgun weddings.
“He was only 23, a struggling wannabe actor with a potentially great profession as a sex symbol ahead of him if the long run movies he was angling for got here to fruition,” Collins wrote.
Collins said she did get an abortion – and there are not any hard feelings against Beatty, 86. Collins admitted she wasn’t ready for motherhood either.
“He was absolutely right,” she told Fox News Digital.
A spokesperson for Beatty didn’t immediately reply to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Collins went on to have two children together with her second husband, actor/singer/songwriter Anthony Newley, and one other child together with her third husband, businessman Ron Kass.
“Motherhood has been wonderful,” said Collins. “I’m very near my children. We talk on a regular basis. I wouldn’t have it some other way.”
For Joan Collins, the fifth time’s the charm.
The “Dynasty” star married husband no. 5 – producer Percy Gibson – in 2002. And after kissing loads of frogs, Collins believes she has finally found her prince.
“To begin with, we were great pals before we got married,” the actress explained to Fox News Digital. “We worked together on a play… We enjoyed one another’s company. We frolicked together. And we saw one another the next 12 months. We wrote love letters – it was a gradual thing. And we realized that we were very much on the identical wavelength.”
“He’s a very nice, kind, grounded person,” the 90-year-old shared. “Lots of the those who I’ve been with – and I’m not going to specify which of them – have been either neurotic, barely unbalanced, or gotten into various things.”
Collins recently shared her love story with Gibson, 58, in a latest memoir, “Behind the Shoulder Pads: Tales I Tell My Friends.” It details her decades-long profession in Hollywood.
Critics have previously identified the couple’s 32-year age gap. But for Collins, it’s “only a number.” She noted that it’s “never too late” to seek out love at any stage in life.
“That’s how we each feel,” she explained. “And we were friends first, above the rest.”
She noted that they each share the identical drive, which has been a part of the key behind their lasting union.
“I used to be born with an incredible enthusiasm for all times,” she said. “My mother used to say that I never kept still after I was a toddler. I used to do five various things without delay. I can be doing a crossword puzzle, making a doll’s house, reading, painting, attempting to grow to be a detective – !”
“Life is a present,” she stressed. “That’s why they call it the current – it’s a present. And so many individuals waste it. It’s so sad. It’s a present, and it doesn’t last for a very long time.”
Within the book, Collins wrote that Gibson wasn’t concerned concerning the age difference because “I actually have great vitality and enthusiasm for all times and all it has to supply.”
“Percy often admits that I can wear him out!” she wrote.
Today, Collins has no regrets – even after she and her former fiancé Warren Beatty called it quits. Collins and Beatty began dating in 1959 and were engaged a 12 months later before splitting.
“We were each too young, too selfish, too ambitious,” Collins reflected. “It just wasn’t right. I mean, I’ve had a whole lot of relationships. I had a whole lot of marriages. They don’t last. Luckily, you become older, and I met the person who’s the proper person for me for the remaining of my life. We’ve been together ever since. And we’re very, very happily married.”
“Breakups occur,” Collins shrugged. “It could occur based on various things.”
Within the book, Collins claimed that when she told Beatty she was pregnant, her then-beau told her she needed to get an abortion to guard their Hollywood careers. Despite the fact that they were already engaged, Collins said she wasn’t a fan of shotgun weddings.
“He was only 23, a struggling wannabe actor with a potentially great profession as a sex symbol ahead of him if the long run movies he was angling for got here to fruition,” Collins wrote.
Collins said she did get an abortion – and there are not any hard feelings against Beatty, 86. Collins admitted she wasn’t ready for motherhood either.
“He was absolutely right,” she told Fox News Digital.
A spokesperson for Beatty didn’t immediately reply to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Collins went on to have two children together with her second husband, actor/singer/songwriter Anthony Newley, and one other child together with her third husband, businessman Ron Kass.
“Motherhood has been wonderful,” said Collins. “I’m very near my children. We talk on a regular basis. I wouldn’t have it some other way.”
