News about Ann Turkel

JAN MOIR: Ann Turkel is 75 years old, which is surprising. Nor that she was once married to actor Richard Harris, the most well-known of all the Hollywood hellraisers. She was his second wife, he was her only husband, and their union lasted for eight tumultuous years during his fame. It survived his overeating and heroin use, his enthrallings, and general dissatisfaction. It came to a point where I was walking on eggshells every time I awakened.' I just couldn't go with it,' Ann says today. Nevertheless, she didn't just stay friends with him after they divorced in 1982. Elizabeth, his first wife, was on good terms with him.