{"id":25342,"date":"2023-07-07T22:01:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T22:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/07\/aaron-spellings-widows-divorce-secret-candy-reveals-split-from-first-husband-as-he-was-gay\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T22:01:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T22:01:38","slug":"aaron-spellings-widows-divorce-secret-candy-reveals-split-from-first-husband-as-he-was-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/07\/aaron-spellings-widows-divorce-secret-candy-reveals-split-from-first-husband-as-he-was-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Spelling&apos;s widow&apos;s divorce secret! Candy reveals split from first husband as he was gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-07-07\" datetime=\"1688767298\" pubdate=\"\">7 July 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/candy-spelling\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,candy-spelling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Candy Spelling<\/a> divorced her first husband because he was gay. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Candy Spelling divorced her first husband because he was gay<\/p>\n<p>The 77-year-old theatre producer widow of late TV producer Aaron married Howard Frederick Leveson in 1963 when she was aged only 17 before they split a year later, but she has only now opened up about her former spouse\u2019s sexuality. <\/p>\n<p>She told SiriusXM\u2019s \u2018Jeff Lewis Live\u2019: \u201cIt sort of didn\u2019t work out\u2026 obviously\u2026 it turned out that he was a latent gay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Host Jeff, told her \u201cnow we just say \u2018gay\u2019\u201d and Candy went on to say she didn\u2019t really \u201cknow\u201d Howard, who died in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>She added about how the first clue he was gay was how infrequently they had sex: \u201cMaybe in the two-and-half years (of the relationship) we had sexual relations six times.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\nCandy said the lack of intimacy hit her self-esteem \u201cbig time\u201d, and she went on marry Aaron, with whom she had children Tori, 50, and 44-year-old Randy. <\/p>\n<p>\nAaron died in 2006 from stroke complications aged 83, and Candy has said Tori\u2019s fallout with the family \u2013 sparked by her only getting $800,000 of Aaron\u2019s $500 million fortune \u2013 \u201ckilled\u201d the \u2018Beverly Hills, 90210\u2019 producer. <\/p>\n<p>\nShe previously told 94.7 WMAS-FM\u2019s Kellogg Krew: \u201cThat\u2019s what killed my husband, actually. He just didn\u2019t want to live after that. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cHe (had) just done everything he could possibly do for his daughter, and she wanted no part of him once he couldn\u2019t do anything for her.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\nCandy and actress Tori made up last year and marked their reunion by sharing a photo of them at dinner with Randy. <\/p>\n<p>\nTori captioned the snap online: \u201cHold those near and dear to you as close as you can. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI love you with all my heart Mommy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\nTori told Entertainment Tonight the dinner came after she realised \u201clife is too short\u201d for feuds. <\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: \u201cI feel like life is too short and we forget that. I think because life keeps going and so you say to yourself, \u2018I gotta make plans with this person, I gotta make an effort,\u2019 and then you don\u2019t because your life keeps going. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s important now to really take that time, and I think I\u2019m finally starting to get that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/aaron-spellings-widows-divorce-secret-candy-reveals-split-first-husband-gay-1381722.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 July 2023 Candy Spelling divorced her first husband because he was gay. Candy Spelling divorced her first husband because he was gay The 77-year-old theatre producer widow of late TV producer Aaron married Howard Frederick Leveson in 1963 when she was aged only 17 before they split a year later, but she has only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2458,2457,2460,2461,2459,1723],"class_list":{"0":"post-25342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-aaron-spelling","9":"tag-candy-spelling","10":"tag-howard-frederick-leveson","11":"tag-jeff-lewis","12":"tag-randy-spelling","13":"tag-tori-spelling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}