Burt Reynolds Reveals His Mom Opposed His Marriage with Loni Anderson: 'She Was Shaking Her Head 'No'' As I Walked Down the Aisle

Burt Reynolds Reveals His Mom Opposed His Marriage with Loni Anderson: 'She Was Shaking Her Head 'No'' As I Walked Down the Aisle

Burt Reynolds has accepted that marrying Loni Anderson was a aberration – and it turns out, his mom anticipation so too.

Reynolds opened up to Men's Health about his accord with Anderson, acceptance there were admonishing signs that their alliance wouldn't last.

Burt Reynolds Reveals His Mom Opposed His Marriage with Loni Anderson

"I bethink if we got married, it was in a abbey I'd congenital accurately for our wedding," he said. "I was walking down the aisle, and Perry Como was walking with me."

The actor, 80, said as he angry to attending at his mom, she was "shaking her arch 'No'" at him.

"I didn't pay attention, but my mom was consistently right," he said.

When asked if Anderson was the adulation of his life, he didn't hesitate: "Nope. Absolutely not."

Reynolds and Anderson wed in 1988 and afar six years later. The amateur has been aboveboard in discussing their marriage, ahead cogent PEOPLE, "I should accept accepted that you don't ally an actress."

So who did abduct his heart? Easy, Sally Field.

Recently, the amateur has been articulate about his adulation for the actress. He fatigued to Men's Health that his animosity for Field haven't been over-romanticized over the years.

"It's the complete truth," he said. "I've replayed it abundant times in my head. Sally was the one."

Reynolds said poor timing ultimately bedevilled the pair.

"The timing just didn't plan out. There was a time if she capital us to break together, and there was a time if I capital us to break together," he added. "We just never acquainted the aforementioned way at the aforementioned time."

But Field's wasn't Reynolds alone absent opportunity. The amateur aswell appear that he abjure axis down Greta Garbo and never sealing the accord with her.

Reynolds said he was 20 if he met Garbo at affair in New York and she started hitting on him.

"She arrive me aback to her abode afterwards the party, and I didn't go," he said. "What a putz! What was I thinking?"

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