Barbra Streisand addressed her rumored fling with Warren Beatty during a recent New Yorker interview. However, the 83-year-old entertainer didn’t share tons of details, and insisted it’s because she really can’t remember them. Maybe they had sex. Maybe they didn’t. She doesn’t know.
“I know I slept in the bed with him, but I can’t remember if we actually had penetration,” she told the publication. “I swear to God, I can’t. There are certain things I block out.”
The interviewer was skeptical of Barbra’s seemingly convenient cloudy memory, but Barbra insisted that she really doesn’t remember. She went on to explain that she and Warren, 88, remain friends to this day.
“But I know we’re still friends. Every year on my birthday, he calls me and we have a wonderful talk about our lives, our children, and so forth,” she said. “So we’re still friends. I met him when I was 15 years old, and he was 21, I think.”
Barbra’s claims about not really remembering what happened between her and the actor echo what she wrote about him in her memoir. In My Name is Barbra, Barbra recalled being asked about being “romantically linked” to Warren during a 1977 Playboy interview.
“I said blithely, ‘One of my flings,'” Barbra wrote in her memoir. “I was just tossing off a reply, playing the role of a jaded woman of the world.”
When it comes to what their relationship was actually like, Barbra said she and Warren “go back a long way.” She also recalled a more recent conversation she had with him that made him question their relationship history.
“Recently, we were on the phone talking politics and who knows what else when he said, ‘I remember why we broke up,'” she wrote. “I said, ‘When were we together?’ Then I hung up and asked myself, Did I sleep with Warren? I kind of remember. I guess I did. Probably once.”
Barbra has been with her husband, James Brolin, for nearly 30 years. During a recent Today show appearance, James said their mattress has helped them maintain a happy relationship — but not in a sexual way.
Because he and his wife are “both lazy,” they spend a lot of quality time together in bed. “We love to sleep late,” James said. “We do a lot of our work on the phone, on paper, reading, right next to each other.”
