Mia Farrow She looks back on her wedding in 1966 Frank Sinatrareveals the secrets behind simple wedding dress.

During an appearance The Drew Barrymore Show During the show, which aired on Friday, November 8, the 79-year-old actress shared that her marriage to the late “My Way” singer was a spur-of-the-moment affair, so much so that she had little time to choose a dress for the occasion.

“I only knew the day before when we were getting married, so I had to wear whatever I had in my closet,” recalled Farrow, who appeared on the show together. Patti LuPoneBroadway co-star Roommate. “It was, yes.”

Farrow and Sinatra met at a 20th Century Fox party in 1964 and quickly fell in love. Two years later, when Farrow was 21 and Sinatra was 50, he proposed.

At that time, Sinatra went to England to “finish a movie” and stayed in a “two-room” “rented house” surrounded by the press. He stated that “there were cameras in front of every window” and that “there were no curtains” in the house.

“So I would crawl on the floor, go to the refrigerator, and open it up from the floor — which is not easy at all — and try to get pizza out or something to eat,” he shared. “Then he would call me and I would act like everything was fine, but it was such a weird thing.”

The singer finally saw what was happening on TV in England and decided to make a big offer. They escape to a hotel in Las Vegas.

“He called and said, ‘I think we should get married tomorrow,'” Farrow recalled. “I was like, ‘Oh, okay!’ I said. ”

“Oh my God,” a surprised Barrymore responded, adding: “Isn’t life so wild?”

Two years after their marriage, Sinatra served divorce papers to the actor on the set of the film. Rosemary’s Baby.

“When she told me to leave, she left the movie because I wouldn’t leave it,” Farrow recalled of Barrymore. “It was another month. He had an argument with the studio head and said, ‘I’m going to get my daughter out of this.’ (But) when he told me to leave, I said, ‘How can I leave?’ You know, I am the daughter of a director and an actress… My mother was Maureen O’Sullivan, my father was a film director, and I couldn’t leave a movie. And I was at every shoot. I had almost (over) another month;

Farrow explained that she never thought Sinatra would actually divorce her, but one day “her lawyer came to the set (and) handed me the divorce papers.”

he said Guard She said in 2007 that their age difference was a factor in the end of the relationship, and that she felt he was “less mature than other 19-year-olds she had ever met”. This immaturity emerged after the divorce, and he admitted: Los Angeles Times“I was too immature to handle this situation. … I became very introverted and tried to find other values ​​in life.”

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However, Farrow shared in an interview: Vanity Fair He said in 2013 that the couple “never really broke up” and that they still kept in touch after their divorce. Their long-lasting friendship lasted until his death in 1998.

Last year, she even paid tribute to the late star on Instagram on what would have been his 107th birthday. Alongside a photo of herself, she wrote: “I bet the angel choirs are singing wonderful new songs!”

“This was the first photo I took with the Rolleiflex camera he bought for us. “He was teaching me how to use it,” he continued. “Happy Heavenly Birthday CB I will always love you.”

The Drew Barrymore Show airs weekdays (check local listings).