It’s safe to say Barbra Streisand doesn’t mind raining on someone else’s parade.
Over the weekend, The New Yorker published an interview with the “Funny Girl” star in which editor David Remnick pressed Streisand about an interesting tidbit in her 2023 memoir, ”My Name Is Barbra.”
“Possibly the greatest line in the whole book, to my mind, is you say you can’t remember if you slept with Warren Beatty,” Remnick said.
“Now, I don’t think anyone has ever written that line in the history of sex, or Hollywood, or anything,” he added about the heartthrob.
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“I know I slept in the bed with him, but I can’t remember if we actually had penetration,” Streisand admitted. “I swear to God, I can’t. There are certain things I block out.”
Despite Streisand’s claim that she has no idea if she properly met Beatty’s little Dick Tracy, it seems like the two have had plenty of time to clear up that detail being that Streisand also told the magazine they’re “still friends.”
“Every year on my birthday, he calls me and we have a wonderful talk about our lives, our children, and so forth,” the “Don’t Rain on my Parade” singer said. “So we’re still friends. I met him when I was fifteen years old, and he was twenty-one, I think.”
In her memoir, the “Way We Were” star wrote about her first impression of Beatty, saying that he was “tall with movie-star looks, and women were already falling at his feet,” per People.
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And if that sounds like a pretty accurate description of any f-boy, it likely explains why Streisand was so flippant toward Playboy in 1977 when the magazine asked her if she and Beatty were ever “romantically linked.”
“I said blithely, ‘One of my flings,’” Streisand wrote in her book of the Playboy interview, per the New York Post. “I was just tossing off a reply, playing the role of a jaded woman of the world.”
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