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- Kirstie Alley was married to her highschool sweetheart Bob Alley from 1970-1977.
- Her ex coincidentally shared the identical final identify as her father.
- Kirstie married fellow actor Parker Stevenson in 1983, they usually adopted.
- Kirstie’s household introduced her dying on December 5, 2022.
One of the small and massive display screen’s most beloved stars, Kirstie Alley, died on December 5, and lots of are questioning about her life behind the digital camera. Kirstie, who handed on the age of 71, had a particularly high-profile profession, from her breakout position as seductive Rebecca Howe reverse Ted Danson on Cheers, to movie roles together with the one reverse John Travolta in Look Who’s Talking.
And whereas her time in Hollywood has been the stuff icons are manufactured from, she definitely had her fair proportion of ups and downs in her private life. Here’s every thing to learn about her two most necessary romantic relationships, considered one of which stretched all the way in which again to highschool.
Parker Stevenson
Kirstie married fellow actor Parker Stevenson, now 70, on December 22, 1983. Though the wedding led to 1997, the couple welcomed two kids by adoption, Lillie, 28 and William [who goes by True,] 30, with the Hardy Boys star after a reported miscarriage. In 2016, the previous couple turned grandparents when William had his personal son. The marriage was allegedly fraught with difficulties, and in 2012 the attractive actress even opened up about emotions she had for individuals exterior the wedding.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, whereas selling her e-book The Art of Men (I Prefer Mine al Dente), she admitted that her “greatest love” was movie costar John Travolta, although she stored it in for the sake of her marriage. “Believe me, it took everything that I had, inside, outside, whatever, to not run off and marry John — and be with John for the rest of my life,” she stated, per The Huffington Post on the time.
The Drop Dead Gorgeous star additionally admitted to falling in love with the late Patrick Swayze, with whom she costarred in North and South — although she stated there was no affair. “We did not have an affair,” she stated. “But again, I think what I did was worse. Because I think when you fall in love with someone when you’re married, you jeopardize your own marriage and their marriage. It’s doubly bad.”
Parker as soon as remembered being opposites with the Jenny Craig spokesperson. “Kirstie and I are exact opposites,” he advised People in 1999. “That’s what made it so interesting, [but being opposites] makes for not a good marriage.” He additionally contemplated on the “ugly process” of divorce and whether or not they’d be buddies once more. “Will we be friends someday? I don’t know.”
It was Kirstie’s two kids from her marriage to Parker that introduced her dying on Dec 5, 2022. “She was surrounded by her closest family and fought with great strength, leaving us with a certainty of her never-ending joy of living and whatever adventures lie ahead,” they wrote partially, in an official social media assertion. “As iconic as she was on screen, she was an even more amazing mother and grandmother.”
Bob Alley
Bob Alley was near Kirstie in additional methods than one. The former couple reportedly met and fell in love in highschool, and Bob already shared Kristie’s maiden identify of Alley. Very little is understood about their marriage past that (and images are just about unimaginable to seek out), although Kirstie did admit to an affair of types, per The Hollywood Reporter in 2012, figuring out the person by the primary identify of “Jake.” She additionally revealed that it was what ended her first marriage.
“I didn’t have sex, but I think it was worse when you fall in love with someone else, when you’re with someone, and you’re plotting and you’re planning,” she stated on the time. “What I did do with Jake was I kissed him. And in my world, in Kirstie world, that meant I had to get a divorce. … It took a long time [to forgive myself] because I was a horrible person, I destroyed my marriage.”