Rupert Everett (L); Paula Yates.Photo: Stephane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty; Rick Stevens/The Sydney Morning Herald/Fairfax Media; Getty Images
Rupert Everettis opening up about his enduring love forPaula Yates, who he had an affair with while she was married toBob Geldof.
When asked whether he felt guilty about the affair at the time, Everett replied, “No. I don’t know, I think it would be for her to feel guilty, not me.”
“We were very, very close, I must say, for a long time, and she’s someone that I adored and still adore,” Everett said of Yates elsewhere in the interview. “I think I was in love with her.”
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Everett, who is openly gay, discussed his relationship with Yates in 2006 during an interview on BBC Radio 2, telling host Jonathan Ross that he “was basically adventurous” in having relationships with women.
“I think I wanted to try everything,” he said, according to theIrish Examiner.
Three years later, Everett toldThe Guardianof Yates, who was a television presenter, “She was married. I was gay. These constraints operated like a kind of safety net.”
“We were both narcissists,” added theMy Best Friend’s Weddingstar. “We both loved to act up and we adored being looked at.”
Rupert Everett.Laurent Viteur/Getty
Yates,who died of a heroin overdosein 2000, was married to Geldof, now 69, for 10 years, from 1986 to 1996.
The two shared three daughters:Pixie Geldof, 30, Fifi Geldof, 37, andPeaches Geldof, who also died of a heroin overdose, at age 25, back in 2014.
source: people.com
