Brigitte Nielsen says she was "on black list" by Hollywood after leaving Sylvester Stallone
The Rocky IV co-stars were married for 19 months in the mid-80s.
Danish actor Brigitte Nielsen And Sylvester Stallone were the subject of tabloid fodder from the moment they played together Rocky IV . They both ended weddings to be together and were less than a year old after the start of their swirling romance.
But that would not last - and Nielsen claims that she suffered unexpected consequences after their union collapsed. In an episode of Own Where are they now? The actor revealed that after their divorce, she could not find a job in Hollywood and was " Essentially on black list . "Continue to read to find out more.
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They met before filming Rocky IV .
According to The Guardian ,, The pair met When a 21 -year -old Nielsen - from his cinema debut in 1985 Red sonja , already a mother, and the end of her first wedding - kept a bell tower of $ 20 to sneak her head under the door of the 39 -year -old Hotel room. At the time, Stallone was married to her first wife, Sasha Czack .
Soon the two were divorced and co-tetches in Rocky IV . Nielsen played Ludmilla Draco, wife of Rocky Nemesis Ivan Draco ( Dolph Lundgren ). Nicknamed Beefcake and Cheesecake by the press, the couple was taken over in tabloids for their age difference and the idea that Nielsen was after Stallone money. (He was the best paid actor in Hollywood at the time.)
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Stallone begged her to get married.
In his 2014 episode of Where are they now? , Nielsen pushed this rumor.
"The biggest false idea when I was with Sylvester was the fact that everyone thought I had married him because of money," she said. "They didn't understand that he begged me to get married."
The stars were married on December 15, 1985, in the succession of Rocky producer Irwin Winkler . Nielsen later said that she knew that the union was even a mistake.
"I remember thinking it was too early, that's not true," she said Oprah Winfrey . "If I was going to go back in time, I shouldn't have married him. And he shouldn't have married me! I don't want to sit here and come like an angel. I was probably also pain in The ass sometimes ... but it was really not for me, and it became very ugly, like some divorces. "
The press blamed their breach of Nielsen's infidelity.
When it was announced in July 1987 that Stallone had asked for divorce invoking irreconcilable differences, People Rumors reported This is because Nielsen had become involved with Beverly Hills COP II director Tony Scott . However, he was able to talk about another case - with the film star, Eddie Murphy - What has actually entered together.
According to Nick de Semlyen 2019 Book Wild and Crazy Guys: How MaveRicks from the 80s has changed Hollywood forever (as mentioned in the New York Post ),, Stallone and Murphy had been good friends When Murphy took the lead Beverly Hills cop After Stallone succeeded, and both even launched a version of Godfather III who would have played both alongside Al Pacino .
Nielsen finally appeared with Murphy in the rest of the cop comedy, leading to gossip that they were romantically involved. While the actor denied them, his friendship with Stallone never recovered.
Nielsen said it was "on black list" by industry after that.
Nielsen said she was excluded from Hollywood after the end of his marriage to Stallone. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"When I left Sylvester, all the doors closed on me," she said on Where are they now?. "No one wanted to touch me, and I was essentially on the list black." She said she was forced to return to Europe, where her ability to speak and act in four languages kept her afloat.
"I was so angry at the time that I cut my green card," she said The Guardian In 2019. "I am almost positive that if I had not been in the eyes of the public with this famous man, it would never have happened. But they always thought: after Stallone, who will be the next one?"
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She married three times more and has become a mother at 54 years old.
Nielsen may have had a hard time finding cinema roles for a while after his divorce from Stallone, but she turned out to be more prolific in love. She got married three times more and marked at least one romance worthy of Tabloid.
She welcomed her second child, Killian Gastineau , when she was in a relationship with the football player Mark Gastineau . Then, in 1990, Nielsen married Copeland Sebastian , director and photographer, which she divorced after two years. His next marriage, to Raoul Meyer , a racing car driver, was more successful, lasted from 1993 to 2005 and resulted in two other children, Douglas Aaron And Raoul, Jr.
After a romance with the rapper Flavor who started Surrealist life and continued on their own reality TV show Strange love , Legally married Mattia Dessì , an Italian model, in 2006. The two had already exchanged wishes informally a year earlier, when she was still married to Meyer. They are still together today, and Neilsen attributes to his fifth husband to help him find sobriety.
"" I am literally a different person , and that has a lot to do with my husband, because my husband does not smoke, does not drink, "she said People In 2018. "When I met him, I was like rock and roll, and he said:" I love you, but I can't live with that. ""
Nielsen gave birth to his fifth child (and to his first daughter) Frida In 2018, when she was 54 years old, more than a decade after starting the treatment of IVF. From his older pregnancy, the actor said to People , "Some women think:" Oh my God, I'm too old. "... can I understand that people say," How can she dare? But how many men have their first children in sixties and the 1970s and they never doubt it? "
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