Joan Collins claims her first husband, Maxwell Reed, drugged and date-raped her.
Within the BBC documentary This Is Joan Collins, which premiered Saturday within the U.Okay., the Dynasty star, 88, mentioned that the Irish actor raped her, after spiking her rum and coke with the drug Rohypnol, on their first date at his London residence. She was 17 and a virgin on the time; Reed was 31.
“The subsequent factor I knew I used to be flat out on the couch and he was raping me,” Collins mentioned. “In these days, my mom would have mentioned I used to be taken benefit of. Now, we name it date rape.”
She went on to marry Reed in 1952, saying now she did so “out of disgrace.”
“Had I not been so harmless about intercourse and the way in which issues must be I would not have finished that,” she mentioned. “However I had a robust sense of guilt, so I did it.”
Their honeymoon “was a fiasco,” Collins mentioned. “We regarded outwardly comfortable however beneath I used to be depressing.”
Issues did not get higher. Collins recalled how throughout their transient marriage, which resulted in 1956, Reed prompt that she have intercourse with different males for cash.
“We have been in Les Ambassadeurs, a very stylish nightclub in Mayfair,” she recalled. “Max had a behavior of gravitating in the direction of wealthy, aged males, and I used to be beginning to get a imprecise concept of what this was all about. Max instructed me, ‘He’ll pay you £10,000 for one night time — and I may even watch.’ I checked out my good-looking, loathsome husband and started to cry. ‘By no means in 1,000,000 years.'”
Collins mentioned she determined to go “dwelling to Mummy.” That they had a messy divorce, wherein he tried to get alimony as a result of he claimed to have found her. She mentioned the divorce price her thousands and thousands. Reed died in 1974 at age 55.
The English actress additionally mentioned she was sexually harassed by movie producer and studio government Darryl Zanuck. She mentioned the twentieth Century Fox honcho, who signed her to a seven-year contract after she appeared in Land of the Pharaohs, “pinned me like a beetle to a board and mentioned, ‘You want an actual man, honey, an actual man.'”
She added, “Fortunately a make-up man got here down the hall and I used to be in a position to escape.”
Collins referred to as herself a “survivor” within the BBC doc.
“I survived being a younger actress when virtually all the lads have been predators,” she mentioned. “They used to say feminine stars have been completed at 27, however right here I’m after seven many years within the enterprise to inform you a factor or two about how you can survive the perils of the occupation.”
Along with Reed, Collins married Anthony Newley, Ronald S. Kass, Peter Holm and — present husband — Percy Gibson. The mother of three additionally dated Harry Belafonte (whereas he was married) and was engaged to Warren Beatty.
