the unforgettable James Bond suffered domestic violence during his first marriages

More than six years ago, on May 23, 2017, Roger Moore dies of cancer. This Saturday, October 14, the unforgettable James Bond would have celebrated his 96th birthday. The opportunity to pay tribute to this iconic star of the 7th art and to remember certain parts of his existence. If the actor has enjoyed great success during his rich career, he has, it seems, lived much less happy moments in his private life.

And for good reason, during his first two marriages, the actor with undeniable charisma would have suffered domestic violence. A dramatic situation which would have lasted… fifteen years. In September 2012, the successor to Sean Connery and George Lazenby spoke about these painful memorieswhile he was a guest on the set of the show Piers Morgan’s Life Storiesoffered by the British television channel ITV1.

Roger Moore: “She threw a teapot in my face”

Interviewed by Piers Morgan, the actor announced that this violence had started during his union with the skater Doorn Van Steyn, to which he said “yes” in 1946. He was then 19 years old, while his wife was six years older. On a daily basis, the young woman would have made him experience real hell. “She scratched meconfided the actor, whose comments were then spotted by the magazine The Obs. My mother was petrified when I came home to see that I always had new scars.”

In the same context, Piers Morgan spoke about one of the (numerous) outbursts of rage expressed by his former partner. “She threw a teapot in my face. I was sunbathing in the garden, I came home and undressed, […] and this teapot came upon mehe remembered with emotion. I told him: ‘OK, it’s okay, I’m out of here.’“

A few years later, in 1953, Roger Moore decided to put an end to this story. The year of his divorce, the ex-James Bond found love again with a Welsh singer thirteen years his senior: one named Dorothy Squires. Unfortunately, once again, Roger Moore found himself caught in a spiral of violence. “One day I was sitting on the edge of the table […] and she was grumbling about something without me paying attentionhe remembered on ITV1. Suddenly, as if in slow motion, I felt my guitar slipping away from me [des mains], I saw it above my head and… boom.” A terrible situation which lasted for eight years.

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