Rita Moreno Just Revealed the Intriguing Title She Gives to Her Late Ex-Boyfriend Marlon Brando
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While some people believe in soulmates or the idea of “The One,” EGOT winner Rita Moreno is proving she has some unique beliefs of her own when it comes to love. In a recent interview, Moreno looked back at her most notable relationships, with the late actor Marlon Brando and her late husband Leonard Gordon, and gave each of them a title of their own.
According to Moreno, Brando, whom she had an eight-year relationship with, was the “lust of her life,” per People en Español.
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“We had a thing going,” Moreno said of The Godfather star. “Oh, yeah, that was the crux of our relationship. It was really, essentially, very sexual, and he was amazing. So was I!”
And while their relationship was quite physical, the West Side Story star went on to remember that Brando was one of her confidants who encouraged her to go to therapy. “Here’s this crazy man telling this crazy woman that she needs therapy,” Moreno joked to the outlet. “I adored him — I was madly in love with him.”
“It took me a long time, and therapy, to get to like myself,” she admitted. “When you get traumatized that early in your life, it takes a long time to get rid of the notion that you’re bad.”
Looking back on her relationship with Gordon, whom she was married to for 45 years before his death in 2010, Moreno said he was the love of her life.
“This marriage taught me something about relationships that I didn’t like, and that is having to be with somebody forever and ever is not necessarily a fabulous thing,” she said, adding that perhaps if it wasn’t for her daughter Fernanda Luisa Gordon, she might have left him. “Sometimes it is. But more often than not, it’s not. That’s something I learned — a big, deep lesson.”
Looks like Moreno has learned a thing or two about love, therapy, and of course, sex!
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