‘Dirty Dancing’ star Kelly Bishop details affair with married man before finding true love

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revealed that she had an affair with a married man in the summer of 1967, shortly after she landed her first Broadway role in “Golden Rainbow.”She declined to name the man, but she described him in the book as, “a highly successful publicity agent.”“I knew that it was wrong,” Bishop told Fox News Digital.“You’re not supposed to be doing that,” she added.“He wasn’t either … I started thinking about his wife, who may or may not have known about us, who may have experienced other affairs he had.

I don’t know. But I knew this wasn’t fair to her.”In the book, Bishop described the affair as “exquisite” and “romantic.” She explained that only two other people knew about it: her mother, and a close friend who was “discreet.”She explained in the book that she never met the man’s wife, which “made it easy to ignore her existence.”But, it became difficult because she loved the unnamed man “deeply.”Bishop detailed, “Right around the time I left ‘Golden Rainbow,’ the reality finally sank in that if this man’s wife loved him nearly as much as I did, I was doing her a huge, incredibly unkind disservice.”She continued, “I had to say goodbye to him, and I did.

It was painful for both of us — I think he was genuinely in love with me too, and it broke my heart to hurt him. But I guess no one ever said that doing the right thing would always feel good.”About her motivations for the affair, she said, “I was lonely.

And that’s an unfortunate setup. You’re not going to see the person as often as you want to. You don’t have the freedom to call them and all those other things.