Zounds again! More on the story, with Leonard chiming in.
You know, Leonard Nimoy telephoned me just before I married Nerine. He said just one sentence, "Bill, you do know that Nerine is an alcoholic." I'm not sure what Leonard expected me to say. "I know she is," I told him. "But I love her." Leonard didn't speak for a minute and then he said, sadly, "Well, Bill, then you are in for a rough ride."' 'Looking back, I know Leonard, who was a recovered alcoholic himself, was warning me not to marry her,' he explains. 'But I did try everything to help her.' And he did. He joined Al Anon, the support group for families, in the hope of learning how to wean Nerine off. 'Then I realised I was going there to learn how to live with an alcoholic. And I didn't want her to be an alcoholic. But I couldn't compete with the drink.'
For many of their earlier years together Nerine, a former model, successfully hid the extent of her addiction. Slowly, however, she became worse. She would go to bed sober, then rise to drink. In the morning, when Shatner woke up, she would be drunk. She tried rehab three times but she couldn't resist the lure of the bottle. At one stage Shatner had to fit an immobiliser to her car so that she couldn't drive while inebriated.
... 'Leonard tried desperately hard to help her. He had battled his own demons with the bottle when we were making Star Trek. He kept it hidden so well that none of us knew at the time. He didn't get dry until the late Eighties, so when I introduced Nerine to him, he knew what an uphill struggle it would be if I married her.'
From William Shatner: The Man Who Fell to Earth http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3673712/William-Shatner-The-man-who-fell-to-Earth.html
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Zounds again! More on the story, with Leonard chiming in.
You know, Leonard Nimoy telephoned me just before I married Nerine. He said just one sentence, "Bill, you do know that Nerine is an alcoholic." I'm not sure what Leonard expected me to say. "I know she is," I told him. "But I love her." Leonard didn't speak for a minute and then he said, sadly, "Well, Bill, then you are in for a rough ride."'
'Looking back, I know Leonard, who was a recovered alcoholic himself, was warning me not to marry her,' he explains. 'But I did try everything to help her.' And he did. He joined Al Anon, the support group for families, in the hope of learning how to wean Nerine off. 'Then I realised I was going there to learn how to live with an alcoholic. And I didn't want her to be an alcoholic. But I couldn't compete with the drink.'
For many of their earlier years together Nerine, a former model, successfully hid the extent of her addiction. Slowly, however, she became worse. She would go to bed sober, then rise to drink. In the morning, when Shatner woke up, she would be drunk. She tried rehab three times but she couldn't resist the lure of the bottle. At one stage Shatner had to fit an immobiliser to her car so that she couldn't drive while inebriated.
... 'Leonard tried desperately hard to help her. He had battled his own demons with the bottle when we were making Star Trek. He kept it hidden so well that none of us knew at the time. He didn't get dry until the late Eighties, so when I introduced Nerine to him, he knew what an uphill struggle it would be if I married her.'
From William Shatner: The Man Who Fell to Earth
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3673712/William-Shatner-The-man-who-fell-to-Earth.html
Great find, Trooper.
Double Zounds indeed!!
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