Martin Short reflects on arguments with ex Gilda Radner: ‘Emotional ups and downs’

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“Only Murders in the Building” star, 74, opened up about his lengthy on-and-off-again relationship with late actress and comedian Gilda Radner during Tuesday’s episode of the “Good Hang with Amy Poehler” podcast.Short said he first met Radner in 1972 during a production of the musical “Godspell” in Toronto, Canada.Although the couple would go on to “break up” and “get back” together “every couple of years,” Short admitted he “fell for her madly” at first.“Every girl wanted to be her best friend and every guy wanted to go out with her,” Short told Poehler, 53, of his ex. “I remember she came up to the first rehearsal and said, ‘Hi, Marty.

I’m so happy to be here.’”“She had her finger on her forehead,” he continued. “I said, ‘OK, good.’ She pulled [away] and she had a big pimple here.”The actor explained, “She was just so original.

The size of her purse, the fullness of her hair, and you know, I fell for her madly.”However, Short – who eventually met his future wife, Nancy Dolman, during a break from dating Radner – also admitted that the original “Saturday Night Live” cast member had her “emotional ups and downs.”“In fact, I’ll tell you exactly what is very interesting,” the “Three Amigos” star said during the podcast. “Gilda had, you know, emotional ups and downs.

And I had just gone through a period where my parents had died, and my mother had died, and all she wanted to do was live. And she was the happiest person in the world.”Short continued, “So to me, one of the issues that Gilda and I had, what we’d have fights about, was I think, ‘What do you have to be not happy about?