When Doris Day was seventeen, she became pregnant with an abusive husband who made threats to…
Tributes to America’s Sweetheart flooded in after actress and singer Doris Day passed away this week at the age of 97. Star of wholesome romantic comedies such as The Pajama Game, she is recalled as the charming blonde exuding a joyful chastity.
However, off-screen, Doris had a far more colorful and complicated sexual life, as she disclosed in an autobiography just before she married husband No. 4 Barry Comden.
She describes the men who left her feeling enchanted, troubled, and perplexed in this exclusive excerpt.
People believe they are familiar with Doris Day. However, they are unaware of ME, Cincinnati native Doris Kappelhoff. My mother, Alma Sophia, was a real hausfrau; her parents were German immigrants, and my father, William, was a dashing music teacher.
However, I didn’t realize how tense my parents were until I was eight years old. My parents had thrown a huge party, and I was in bed when I heard whispers outside my room. When my father and mother divorced, it became a scandal in our church because it was revealed he had been hanging out with his wife’s closest friend.
