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In his new memoir, Anthony Hopkins admits to cheating on his second wife Jennifer Lynton during their marriage
“She deserved better than me, she really did,” the actor writes
Hopkins has been married to wife Stella Arroyave since 2003
Anthony Hopkins is reflecting on past relationships and marriage mistakes in his new memoir.
In his book We Did OK, Kid, which was released Tuesday, Nov. 4, the Oscar winner, 87, gets candid about having affairs during his marriage to ex-wife Jennifer Lynton.
“She turned a blind eye to whatever I was up to. It was only years later that she knew about my infidelities,” Hopkins writes in the book.
“I don’t know whether she took a lover too. I rather hope she did. I would never blame her for it,” he continued. “It would be some consolation to know that she found some happiness in those years in spite of me. It was sad because she deserved better than me, she really did. She brought a change in my life, and I blew it. I take full responsibility for that.”
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Stella Arroyave and Anthony Hopkins on March 27, 2022
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Hopkins has been married three times, first to Petronella Barker, then Lynton and currently to wife Stella Arroyave, since 2003.
After Hopkins met Lynton in December 1969, she “stayed with me for 20 years,” he writes. “I did not make it easy on her. She’d caught a tiger by the tail.”
In the book, Hopkins admits that he was a “mess” when he and Lynton divorced: “I was on the run from rocky dealings on films, broken relationships with women, my lack of trust, a neurotic insistence on being isolated.”
Elsewhere in his memoir, the Silence of the Lambs actor opens up about his career highs and lows, getting sober after struggling with alcoholism, and his decades-long estrangement from his daughter Abigail, now 57, from his first marriage.
PEOPLE announced Hopkins’ new memoir back in March. At the time, the publisher, Summit Books, promised an “arresting” and “vulnerable” read. The star also reads the audiobook version.
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It’s a “deeply honest look at the low points in his personal life,” the synopsis added. “His addiction cost him his first marriage, his relationship with his only child and nearly his life — the latter ultimately propelling him toward sobriety, a commitment he has maintained for nearly half a century.”
Hopkins’ memoir, We Did OK, Kid, is available now wherever books are sold.
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