Susan Sarandon is wanting again on her ultimate conversations together with her former lover David Bowie.
The Oscar-winning actress, 75, stated that she was capable of reconnect with the enduring singer earlier than he handed away from liver most cancers in 2016 at age 69. During that interval, they have been capable of finding closure.
“I was fortunate enough to be closer to him right before he died, the last couple of months. He did find me again,” Sarandon advised The Mail on Sunday’s You journal. “We talked to each other and said some things that needed to be said.”
Sarandon and Bowie first related whereas starring collectively within the 1983 vampire movie The Hunger, and dated secretly for some time after. After splitting, Sarandon went on to satisfy Tim Robbins whereas working collectively on the 1988 baseball movie Bull Durham; the actors had two sons earlier than splitting in 2009. Bowie, in the meantime, wed supermodel Iman in 1992.
“I love his wife Iman, someone who was so equal in stature to him,” Sarandon stated of the girl who married her ex. “That was clearly who he was destined to be with. And I’ve kept in touch with her.”
Sarandon was capable of see Bowie in individual one final time in December 2015. Now, she says she considers herself “so fortunate to be able to see him when he told me what was going on with him.” Unfortunately, Sarandon stated her ultimate telephone dialog with Bowie is a little bit of a blur. It occurred whereas she was visiting the Greek island of Lesbos to spotlight the refugee disaster. Sarandon had taken Ambien, a sleep remedy that made her mind fuzzy.
“I wasn’t sleeping so I took a pretty strong sleep aid. And I had this dream that David had called me and that we’d had this conversation,” she shared. “Then later I thought, Did he actually call me? And I went to my phone and he had. But I have no recollection of what that conversation was.”
Sadly, Bowie went on to cross away quickly after.
“He died a week later. It’s all so frustrating,” she defined, including that “There was a double rainbow in New York on the day that David Bowie passed.”
As for locating a romantic accomplice sooner or later, Sarandon, who break up from filmmaker Jonathan Bricklin in 2015, hasn’t counted that solely out. Back then, she stated her sexuality was “up for grabs,” and she or he nonetheless maintains the identical stance.
“Yeah. I’m open to persuasion. But busy as hell and with lots of wonderful friends and grandchildren,” she stated. “Everybody is somewhere on a spectrum, and I like the fluidity we have now. For me, it’s all about connection, curiosity, passion.”
Still, she’s “not really looking. I feel fulfilled and happy. If it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen. In the meantime, I am dancing in my kitchen.”
Her feedback echo these she made this summer season, when she shared that she’s open to new prospects.
“In terms of a romantic relationship, I don’t know,” she advised People again in August “That window may have closed, but I’m forever hopeful — but not desperate.”