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Clockwise from top: Rue McClanahan stars in Logo’s new series ‘Sordid Lives, along with: Ann Walker (left) and Beth Grant, Olivia Newton-John and Caroline Rhea (right). (Photos courtesy of Logo)
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while — until after the wedding. That seems to give some men a sense of authority and ownership over your actions.”
She says her sixth husband, Morrow Wilson, whom she married in 1997, is different from all the others. She calls him the smartest man she’s ever met.
Still, their relationship has had its share of ups and downs. Getting Wilson to overcome his difficult childhood, which has left him sensitive, but also filled with rage, has threatened their marriage. McClanahan is standing by her man the way he stood by her.
“We went through cancer together,” McClanahan said, referring to her bout with breast cancer in the same year she met Wilson. “No relationship is easy. I’ve left Morrow a couple of times and come back because every time I come back to start divorce proceedings, I can’t do it. There’s something there that is worth saving and finding. I’ve always known that under his troubled exterior there was a wonderful human being.”
McClanahan has certainly earned her place in history. In June the “The Golden Girls” was the recipient of TV Land’s special Pop Culture award. And after all of her loves and accomplishments and a life that’s been everything but sordid, she said she’s learned a valuable lesson.
“You can’t be all things to all people. You have to be true to yourself.”
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