Didn’t Want to Write About Past Relationships in New Memoir
The legendary singer, actress and director was persuaded by her editor to open up about past loves like Don Johnson, Ryan O’Neal and Andre Agassi.
With her new memoir My Name is Barbra, Streisand, who’s 83, hopes readers will finally “know the truth” about her.
“One of the reasons I wrote the book is to talk about the myths about me,” Streisand tells CBS News’ Gayle King in an interview that aired on CBS Sunday Morning.
Among reflections on her career as a singer, actress and director, Streisand writes about her “past loves and regrets,” as King teased.
Streisand has been married to James Brolin for 25 years.
If it were p to her, there would have been less in the book about her past relationships — including with Don Johnson, Ryan O’Neal, Andre Agassi and former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau.
After King complimented the Way We Were star on her “very nice dating roster,” she asks Streisand if she had “a good time.”
“With the men in my life, yes,” she replies.
Streisand, who is joined by Brolin at one point, recalls the apparent insult that sparked their courtship,
She also reflects on her childhood, including being “angry” about the death of her father when she was just a year old and her mother’s lack of affection.
Despite her iconic career, Streisand insists, “I don’t think of myself as a famous person, I just don’t. I’m the same Barbara Joan Streisand as I was in high school.”
Love Directing
The multi-hyphenate also tells King about the work she finds most fulfilling: “I love directing, because it’s a complete vision. … It calls on every aspect of yourself: Decorating, visualizing, helping actors achieve a performance that I have in my mind for them.”
