Why Ekland is done with men

Britt Ekland did not have a lot of success with romance, said Chrissy Iley in The Daily Telegraph (U.K.). The former Bond Girl, now 70, was a famous, 20-year-old sex symbol when she met English comedian Peter Sellers. The pair married just 10 days later, and she still has no idea why. “I never wanted to marry,” she says. “I thought that marriage was a lousy institution and women had a really tough deal.” But Sellers, 17 years her senior, swept her off her feet. “He gave me a puppy, for God’s sake. What was he thinking? And what was I thinking? You can’t bring up a dog before you’re brought up yourself.” Within three months, Ekland was pregnant, and trapped in a jealousy-fueled, destructive marriage. “I think today we would say he was bipolar,” she says of Sellers. “He should have been in therapy. If I’d met him today I would know much more, but I didn’t.” When the pair divorced, Ekland briefly had an “intense” sexual fling with Warren Beatty. “It was a great fantasy, but it wasn’t real life.” Then she fell for singer Rod Stewart. But after eight years of Rod’s womanizing, Ekland eventually cut him loose, too. “He couldn’t help himself,” she sighs. “It was like a kid in a candy store.”

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