Bond actor, Sir Roger Moore, has shockingly admitted how he suffered domestic violence at the hands of two of his former wives.
In a tell-all television interview, the 84-year-old claimed he was not the brave Bond character we all saw in screen in his own life.
His first wife, Doorn Van Steyn, who he married in 1946 aged 19, repeatedly punched and scratched him. She once threw a teapot at him.
The ice-skater, whose real name was Lucy Woodard died in 2010. She also left him with scars and once punched his doctor as he treated him for a slashed hand.
In a further confession, the 007 legend also claimed that his second wife Dorothy Squires, who he married in 1953 shortly after divorcing Van Steyn, was also violent. She attacked him after learning he had been unfaithful to her.
Sir Moore told Piers Morgan on his ITV1 show Life Stories that during his marriage to Squires, who he divorced in 1968, she also hit him over the head with a guitar.
He told Piers about his first wife’s fight with the doctor; “It made a change because normally she punched me.
“She would scratch me. She threw a pot of tea at me.
“I’d been sunbathing in the garden, I came up and I’d taken off my pants and I gave her some smart Alec answer and this teapot came hurtling at me. I said, ‘right, that’s it, I’m leaving’.
”She storms off out of the room and I hear the bath running. I thought, ‘What a cow, I’m leaving her and she’s having a bath’.”
A young Roger Moore in his Bond days.
Sir Roger, the longest-running Bond, added; ”So I smashed the bathroom door open and she had all my clothes in the bath and said, ‘now leave me’. I waited for them to dry. The marriage was doomed.”
Speaking about his second wife Squires, who died in 1998 aged 83, he said; “I remember, to avoid confrontation, I used to strum the guitar and one day I was sitting on the edge of the table strumming and she was ranting on about something and I wasn’t taking any notice.
”Next thing I know, it was like slow motion, I could feel the guitar coming out of my hands and I could see it up above my head and… bash, it came down. She ruined the guitar. She had a great temper.”
Welsh vocalist Stynes also attacked the famous Bond after she found out he was having an affair with Luisa Mattioli, a young Italian actress who he would marry in 1969. She was to be Sir Roger’s third wife.
“Dorothy was not happy. She threw a brick through my window. She reached through the glass and grabbed my shirt and she cut her arms doing it.
“The police came and they said, ‘Madam, you’re bleeding’ and she said, ‘It’s my heart that’s bleeding’.
He since divorced third wife Mattioli who he has three children with and is not happily married to Christina Tholstrup, a 71 year-old Danish-Swedish socialite he married in 2002.
He said: ”It’s a tranquil relationship, there are no arguments.”
Finally… Good to know Sir Moore…
The full interview with Piers Morgan airs this Friday on ITV1 at 9pm.
