Sharon Gless' Battle with Alcohol-the Untold Story
[quote]"When I think about this situation, my head goes in circles and the only answer seems to be another glass of wine, another belt of scotch."
[quote]Sharon's drinking became a problem last November, when she put her romance with Hector on hold to start dating Barney, sources confide. It was an especially stressful time for Sharon, because Barney's estranged wife Barbara was a close friend of hers.
[quote]"And because she's so emotionally confused over her romantic problems, she's been eating up a storm, downing plates of pasta. She has put on 25 pounds."
[quote]Tearful Sharon told the pal," I can't stand myself. I'm putting on weight, eating everything in sight, and I can't get this boozing under control.
[quote]"When I come back fit and healthy, I'll decide what I'm going to do about my love life!"
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 20, 2021 7:03 AM
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No one commented yet? Where IS everyone? Ok I'll start.
I start lol'g because of the names, Hector & Barney. I was thinking and picturing Barney Rubble.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 7, 2015 8:55 AM
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Drinking again? No! Where are her friends? Back to AA today.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 7, 2015 11:42 AM
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She's struggled with alcohol for decades.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 7, 2015 3:55 PM
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I can hear the canes stampeding towards this thread.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 7, 2015 3:57 PM
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How old is this story? The web page linked to looks like it was made in about 1998.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 7, 2015 4:00 PM
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[quote]How old is this story?
1988
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 7, 2015 4:13 PM
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That was in the late 1980’s, after Cagney and Lacey’s T.V’s Police Drama ended. She was involved with Hector Figueroa on and off for 5 years. She stopped dating Hector to date Barney Rosenzweig. Then Barney went back to his wife. She wanted both but ‘had’ to choose. She started drinking more as she also played her alcoholism character Cagney. Her agent took her to dinner and told her she had a problem with alcohol. She went to Hazaldon Treatment Center for 7 weeks. Came back went back to acting and then married Barney in the 1990’s. She’s about 77 now and still acting. The End, whew, lmao. 2/25/2021
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 26, 2021 9:22 PM
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I always liked Gless and never fully understood why her career took such a nosedive after Cagney & Lacey. And I wondered why she'd bother doing Queer As Folk, which felt a bit like slumming.
The alcoholism explains a lot.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 26, 2021 9:30 PM
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It's hard finding work for actresses over 40 and even harder finding good work, and that show with an anti-gay slur in its name wasn't it.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 26, 2021 9:31 PM
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She sounds like a typical boozy drama queen actress to me.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 26, 2021 9:38 PM
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Seriously... bump a 2015 thread about a story from 1988?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | February 26, 2021 9:40 PM
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Sounds like Sharon had a hungry vagina.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 26, 2021 9:42 PM
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Who was the freak show that linked a 30-year-old story as if it were news?
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 26, 2021 9:46 PM
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[quote] "She wanted both but ‘had’ to choose."
I've always liked her, but how fucking selfish can one woman be? I know, she's an actress, and they can be very entitled. But really?! Both guys should have left her in the dust, at that point.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | February 26, 2021 9:53 PM
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Lmao... many comments ;) the lady, actress, actor, person whatever you call her is still alive! She will be 77 on May 31, 2021 Wikipedia. She is writing her autobiography that is suppose to come out in the spring of 2021. At least she has a history that many people know and enjoy hearing/reading about. Many of us will not be even be a foot note to the masses. but I guess some people have time, money and a curiosity to read and comment on any matter in the world of social media. I believe as my mother said "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. Keep the comments coming !!!!
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 20, 2021 6:55 AM
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Wasn't she the last actress to ever be placed under contract with a studio? Or was that Susan St. james?
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 20, 2021 7:03 AM
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