She is one of the most famous ladies in the art world.
Actress, Oscar winner, winner of numerous awards, Meryl Streep has never talked about her private life. She has kept the sadness she had deep in her soul for years, while recently she decided to talk about the suffering she had gone through.
Life was not easy at all for the Hollywood actress, where she was attacked twice and once the criminals beat her so badly that she pretended to be dead to avoid being beaten.
“I was attacked on the streets of New York once. I pretended to be dead so they wouldn’t beat me. From the great beatings, I felt as if I had fallen from a height of twenty meters”, said Meryl, who was on the verge of death after the attack.
However, there was no end to the incidents. One evening, she was in the company of a good friend, and almost everyone knows about this event.
“I was attacked and beaten together with a person close to me. I went crazy and started hitting an attacker. Cher was with me. We got some of the attackers off, that was a miracle,” Streep said during the award ceremony for investigative journalism.
However, perhaps the most beautiful and at the same time the most tragic story is the love of her life, John Kazale, whom she fell in love with four decades ago.
John was 14 years older than the actress, who moved to Los Angeles when they first met in 1976.
“I’ve never met a man like him. He was unique, very charming and curious,” she claimed.
Although they loved each other very much, the couple could do nothing when in 1977 John learned that he was suffering from lung cancer. At that moment, Meryl sat in the doctor’s office and just looked at her boyfriend and suddenly stood up and asked “Where are we going for dinner tonight?”.
This was the beginning of a new struggle of hers, which lasted until the death of the actor, who, upon learning that he was ill, immediately canceled all film projects while Meryli began to work full-time and more than before .
“My boyfriend is seriously ill and occasionally goes to the hospital, like now. They care a lot about him and I’m doing my best not to disturb him. I constantly worry and pretend to be brave, which mentally, physically and emotionally drains me more than anything in my life,” she wrote in a letter she sent to her drama professor at Yale University.
John was admitted to the hospital in early March, and on March 12, doctors told Meryl of his beloved’s death. She held him in her arms and so a great love disappeared.
Merrill, after this loss, found it very difficult to recover as she then married an American football talent scout, Don Garner, with whom she lives today and has four children.