'I was stupid': DameJoan Collins looks back on past marriages
Dame Joan Collins was an "idiot" to marry Maxwell Reed. The 90-year-old actress was allegedly raped by the actor on their first date but they went on to wed in May 1952, before splitting just seven months later and she's thankful she managed to "get rid" of him. She told The Sunday Times magazine: “I used to say to the girls at school, ‘I’m going to marry him one day.’ What an idiot. I had the brains of this glass of water. “But what the hell. I got rid of him.” Joan's second husband was singer Anthony Newley - the father of her children Tara and Alexander - and while she's pleased their kids ...