16 September 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\nDame Joan Collins has opened up about the traumatic day she had an abortion.<\/p>\n
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Dame Joan Collins opens up about ‘horrifying’ abortion in new memoir<\/p>\n
\nThe 90-year-old actress writes about the “horrifying” procedure, which she had after discovering she was pregnant at the age of 26 with her then-fiance Warren Beatty’s baby, in her upcoming memoir ‘Behind The Shoulder Pads’.<\/p>\n
\nShe writes, in an extract obtained by the Daily Mail newspaper: “A long time ago I had an abortion. I was living with my then fiance Warren Beatty, at the time a young, unknown actor. Even though I was careful, I fell pregnant.<\/p>\n
\n“‘I think I’m pregnant,’ I said, coming into the kitchen one day, where he was preparing one of his health concoctions in the blender.<\/p>\n
\n“He stopped slicing bananas and pouring wheatgerm, took off his glasses and stared at me. Without his glasses he was quite myopic and I wondered why he didn’t want to look at me. ‘Pregnant?’ he asked in his puzzled little boy voice. ‘How did that happen?’<\/p>\n
\n“‘The butler did it,’ I said sarcastically. ‘Or maybe it’s an immaculate conception.’ ‘This is terrible,’ he said, putting his glasses back on and looking at me as if for the first time. ‘Terrible!’<\/p>\n
\n“‘I know,’ I said in a small voice. ‘I’m sorry.’ But why was I sorry? He was just as complicit.<\/p>\n
\n“We sat on the faded red sofa in the living room of the apartment I had rented in New York. I had a stiff vodka, he had his health drink and we discussed what to do.<\/p>\n
\n“Abortion was a dirty word in the early 1960s. In fact, so was sex.<\/p>\n
\n“Even living together as Warren and I did was considered sinful.”<\/p>\n
\nAlthough they were engaged, Joan did not want a “shotgun” wedding and she feared having a baby would be “career suicide”.<\/p>\n
\nShe writes: “Warren and I were engaged, so we could get married, of course, but I was not in favour of ‘shotgun’ weddings. The few times we had discussed marriage we had both decided that we were too immature to make it work.<\/p>\n
\n“He was only 23, a struggling wannabe actor with a potentially great career as a sex symbol ahead of him if the future movies he was angling for came to fruition.<\/p>\n
\n“As a successful 26-year-old actress under contract to 20th Century Fox, having a baby out of wedlock would have been for me career suicide.<\/p>\n
\n“With the eyes of the gossip columnists on us, nagging in print for us to ‘tie the knot’, it would have been an impossibility. So, I dried my tears, putting his ambition and my career first, and mooched about until it was time to drive to New Jersey.<\/p>\n
\n“[After the abortion] I didn’t want to think about what had happened last night. It was too vivid and too painful.<\/p>\n
\n“But the next day I felt much better and full of energy again. I pushed the horrifying abortion out of my head. Done. Over. Forgotten.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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