Jack Nicholsondaughter Lauren Nicholson She was a close friend of one of her father's mistresses.
“For many girls, best friends are their first love. They spend all their time together. We learn from each other. Protect each other,” Lauren, 34, wrote in a post on Friday, January 24. Vanity gallery. “And when it's time for kids to enter the picture — and the best friend's attention is divided between them and another friend — it's their first big heartbreak. When I was 9, my best friend was 30.” Lara Flynn Boyle“.
Twin Peaks Alum BoyleShe, now 54, began dating Nicholson, now 87, in 1999.
“Just like the universe, Lara's romance with my father began with a bang. On a quiet summer night in 1999, the couple dressed for dinner, the sound of his Mercedes' engine the only sound. “My father made a left turn onto Mulholland from Coldwater, on Only a quarter mile from our house when their car collided with another car. When Dad finally came, his head dripping with blood, he looked up to see Lara crawling out of the sunroof. She reportedly shouted: “I can't be here!” “And I left the steaming piece of metal looking like a dead horse.”
Jack Nicholson has welcomed six children by five women over the years, but has only commented publicly on four of them. Throughout his time in the spotlight, Jack has only been married once. He and Sandra Knight married in 1962, and welcomed their daughter, Jennifer Nicholson, the following year. After their divorce (…)
Lauren also claimed in the article that she did not learn about the car accident from a family member, but instead from a “nosy mom at school.”
“Identification card I saw my father just a few days ago “No mention of a car accident,” she wrote. “Not knowing the tabloids would pick up on the news, he wanted to present Lara on his own terms.”
Jack and Boyle, who have The age difference is 33 yearsdated from 1999 to 2004. He eventually introduced the actress to His children. (Jack is a father of six children, and shares Lauren and son Ray with his ex-wife Rebecca Broussard. He also shares his daughter Jennifer Sandra KnightIbn Caleb with Susan AnspachHoney's daughter with Winnie Holman And his daughter Tessa with Jenin Goren.)
“I will never forget the first day Lara got to know us kids. She came down the outside stairs to join us by the pool,” said Lauren. “I remember the sun reflecting on the water, and the sound of the wind playing in the trees. Most importantly, I remember what Lara was wearing, a bathing suit with flames licking between the legs. We didn't have to know that she had been nominated for an Emmy that year for her work Practice So that my brother and I would know that we were in the presence of a strong person.”
She added: “That day, I was too afraid to talk to her. Instead, I watched her surreptitiously from the shallow end, reading a book on a plastic raft, the wind gently pushing her back and forth across the surface of the water. Finally, the answer to my prayers has arrived – Mary Poppins on Mulholland Drive.
Once Loren met Boyle, she said she was smitten by the actress' charm, confidence and compassion.
“Thanks to her extrasensory intuition, she felt like I was hurting myself and told me stories about the time she had to wear knee socks to hide her scratched legs,” Lauren said. “Lara made me feel like my pain mattered. … I was a kid who felt, despite everything I had materially, that there was something missing in my life. And Lara didn’t diminish those feelings. She told all these stories with a cigarette and a smile because she was a survivor.”
As time went on, Lauren said she “stuck to Boyle like she was made of glue.”
“For my father, Lara was a bridge between him and his children. “Suddenly, we were doing things we had never done before,” Lauren added. “In Aspen, we went whitewater rafting on the Colorado River. We laughed out loud while playing Parcheesi. In one particularly treacherous Uno game, my brother and I tricked ourselves so that we wouldn't win, and my father wouldn't either.”
Eventually, Jack and Boyle decided to call it quits in 2004, and as Lauren wrote in her article, she still had “no idea why.”
“I don't know if he cried or if she cried, but I definitely did. I woke up one snowy winter morning in our house in Aspen and she was just gone,” Lauren recalled. “I knew my father's relationship with Lara couldn't last forever,” Lauren recalled. However, when I was with her, I had no idea what I would do without her.”
According to Lauren, the last words Boyle ever said to her were: “I'll always keep you in my heart, honey.” Lauren has not seen Boyle since her split from Jack.
