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    Dyan Cannon Dishes On Marriage To Cary Grant

    Access Hollywood – Mon, Oct 17, 2011

    Dyan Cannon is speaking out about her marriage to Cary Grant, including claims that the late actor used LSD as a way to cope with his childhood pain and relationship problems.

    "I wanted it to be a helpful book, a hopeful book, an inspirational book. Something that would help people," Dyan, who was married to the Hollywood legend from 1965 to 1968, said on Monday's Access Hollywood Live .

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    "I don't rag on him. It's not a vendetta," she said of her new book, "Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant," available now in bookstores.

    Dyan, who was Cary's fourth wife, claims a rough childhood, which included estrangement from his father and also being told his mother had died when she was actually alive, led to the actor using drugs.

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    "He had such a traumatic childhood. It was horrible... his was just horrendous and he never really dealt with those things," she told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover. "He tried to, that's the reason he tried LSD. It wasn't for a... party. He thought it was a gateway to God, he really did. I think he thought it was a gateway to peace inside himself and I think with all the wealth and fame he embraced and that embraced him, he couldn't find it, he couldn't land on it."

    Dyan said her marriage to the actor, who was 33 years her senior, eventually began to unravel and Cary attempted to ease their problems with drugs.

    "When our marriage started to go south - and we had a beautiful daughter - he told me many times that I was the only woman he trusted enough to have a child with," she explained. "He said, 'LSD will help us,'... I wanted to make him happy more than anything else in life and it's good to love someone and it's good to try make them happy, but if you have to go against something that is intrinsically against your nature, that you know you shouldn't do in order to please someone, it's death."

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    Despite their short marriage and relationship woes, Dyan fondly looks back on her time with the actor, referring to him as "delicious."

    "I've never known romance like that," she told Billy and Kit. "He was as close to perfect as it gets, but he had stuff to work through like we all do. And what we tend to do, is that we tend to make gods out of people... he was a yummy, awesome, delicious human being."

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    50 comments

    • A Yahoo! User  •  7 mths ago
      SHE'S OLD AND PROBABLY FINANCIALLY STRAPPED. LET THE DEAD REST IN PEACE. What a creep to write unflattering things about a dead person who obviously can't defend himself. COWARD . She should have written them when he was alive. She only makes herself look like a #$%$ Who cares. UGH!
      • dale mulkey
        dale mulkey 7 mths ago
        speaking of ugly did you bother to read the story before you opened your mouth and let go your steaming pile of crap. you useless waste of life
      • sfebon
        sfebon 7 mths ago
        Yep you should be offended when someone wraps up a discussion about you by saying "he was a yummy, awesome, delicious human being"
      • Lost in Paradoxes
        Lost in Paradoxes 7 mths ago
        Teal Exclamation Mark, I agree. I am so sick and tired of hearing about these stars writing tell-all memoirs when the other person isn't around to have the opportunity to tell their side.
        Dale, Sfebon, it doesn't matter whether Dyan writes of happiness or sad times. It's exploitation of her personal relationship with a person who is decease. These out of work actors are writing/having a book written nowadays to support their unemployment.
    • Alex
      Alex  •  7 mths ago
      Obviously a woman with a vendetta, trying to cash in on her 15 minutes of fame. I won't be buying this piece of garbage book of hers. If she was his wife, then she SHOULD HAVE BEEN HIS WIFE. Stuck with him, helped him, nurtured him. You know.... LOVED HIM?
    • shelly
      shelly  •  7 mths ago
      She should keep his past from us, we don't need to know, his image is now tarnished, him using lsd, makes you wonder who else did it, living in that fantasy world of Hollywood.
      • reg
        reg 7 mths ago
        kind of a beech,eh?
    • none
      none  •  7 mths ago
      Judy, Judy, Judy... i mean.... Dyan, Dyan, Dyan
    • Mar H
      Mar H  •  7 mths ago
      Who cares. She must neeed money.
    • JBQ
      JBQ  •  7 mths ago
      Sad that she has to lower herself to such as making bad statements about Cary. She should have just gone to a Laker game and kept her mouth shut!
    • Yahoo IsCrap
      Yahoo IsCrap  •  7 mths ago
      Grant was *way ahead* of you Dyan. You should have dosed up with him.
    • Kristi
      Kristi  •  7 mths ago
      Oh to be married to Cary Grant! Sounds like he was a fascinating, tragic soul. RIP Mr. Grant, you're a legend and will never be forgotten.
    • Tom Triumph
      Tom Triumph  •  7 mths ago
      So why is it that all actors, male and female, think we want to read about them or their past?
    • barbara
      barbara  •  7 mths ago
      Of course he was delicious. The LSD was part of a comprehensive medical/psychological program. At the time it was prescribed. Of course abuse occurs, how many times have you shared your xanax or sleeping pills, your vicoden? No excuses but so what? Hate that he had to go through that. As someone who created a personna and practiced it until he was done, he demonstrated amazing internal strength. Thank you for creating a daughter which he obviously adored and cherished. I was very glad to have seen his celluloid contributions.
    • Gee
      Gee  •  7 mths ago
      She's had WAY too many face lifts!
    • FRANK S
      FRANK S  •  7 mths ago
      "Wow...Look at THE COLORS" - Cary Grant
    • caramia
      caramia  •  7 mths ago
      IS THIS CHICK LOW ON MONEY? HOW PATHETIC!!!
    • Yahoo IsCrap
      Yahoo IsCrap  •  7 mths ago
      Owsley rules
    • ruth
      ruth  •  7 mths ago
      Why do people feel the need to share personal information about their families with the public ? She thinks it will help someone ????????? Give me a break. Money says it all.
    • Spike
      Spike  •  7 mths ago
      For the love of God, Dyan, you made sure all this drek was fodder for front-page headlines during your divorce trial -- OVER FORTY YEARS AGO! That tabloid orgy was good for your career; don't count on it working a second time.
    • Tim T
      Tim T  •  7 mths ago
      Continue walking the boulevard!
    • A Yahoo User
      A Yahoo User  •  7 mths ago
      She is so in need of money that she is trashing the father of her child. Besides that, the fact he took drugs is VERY old news.
    • BABYOHNO
      BABYOHNO  •  7 mths ago
      Who is she kidding? Dyan Cannon was a grade C actress when she married Cary Grant and she only did it to help her career which it didn't . She also married him and made sure to have a baby to insure a profitable divorce settlement, which she received. And now to shamefully write a book on the marriage she again, wishes to profit from the marriage. If I remember correctly, she was preggers when he married her so it wasn't outof some great love on his part. He should have known he could do much better than Dyan Cannon. He always wanted a child so he did the decent thing. She's trash in my book, trying to collect on a dead man.
    • Gogaz
      Gogaz  •  7 mths ago
      LSD is great. Do it and you will never be brainwashed again.
      • Adela Juliana
        Adela Juliana 7 mths ago
        Cary Grant and Steve Jobs
        not a bad recommendation
        but my wild days are gone, sadly
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