Martin Brief is trying again on his love life – and on one ex-girlfriend specifically.
The “Only Murders in the Building” star, 74, opened up about his prolonged on-and-off-again relationship with late actress and comic Gilda Radner throughout Tuesday’s episode of the “Good Hang with Amy Poehler” podcast.
Brief stated he first met Radner in 1972 throughout a manufacturing of the musical “Godspell” in Toronto, Canada.
Though the couple would go on to “break up” and “get back” collectively “every couple of years,” Brief admitted he “fell for her madly” at first.
“Every girl wanted to be her best friend and every guy wanted to go out with her,” Brief informed Poehler, 53, of his ex. “I remember she came up to the first rehearsal and said, ‘Hi, Marty. I’m so happy to be here.’”
“She had her finger on her forehead,” he continued. “I said, ‘OK, good.’ She pulled [away] and she had a big pimple here.”
The actor defined, “She was just so original. The size of her purse, the fullness of her hair, and you know, I fell for her madly.”
Nevertheless, Brief – who finally met his future spouse, Nancy Dolman, throughout a break from relationship Radner – additionally admitted that the unique “Saturday Night Live” forged member had her “emotional ups and downs.”
“In fact, I’ll tell you exactly what is very interesting,” the “Three Amigos” star stated in the course of the podcast. “Gilda had, you know, emotional ups and downs. And I had just gone through a period where my parents had died, and my mother had died, and all she wanted to do was live. And she was the happiest person in the world.”
Brief continued, “So to me, one of the issues that Gilda and I had, what we’d have fights about, was I think, ‘What do you have to be not happy about? You’re talented, you have family money, everyone loves you, everyone wants to be your friend, everyone wants to date you, no one is funnier, you get the biggest laughs of anyone on stage.’”
“But I was only 22,” he acknowledged. “I didn’t understand.”
Radner handed away from ovarian most cancers in 1989. She was 42.
Authentic “SNL” forged members Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman paid tribute to Radner final month in the course of the “Saturday Night Live” fiftieth anniversary particular on NBC.
Dolman, who Brief married in 1980, handed away at age 58 in 2010 after a battle with ovarian most cancers. She and the “SNL” alum had been married for 30 years and adopted three youngsters.
“I believe that when people die, they zoom into the people that love them,” the sketch comic stated of his late spouse throughout an interview with “AARP The Magazine” in 2019.
“This idea that it just ends, and don’t speak of them — that’s wrong,” Brief added. “That’s based on denial that we’re all going to die. So to me, she’s still here.”
Brief’s look on Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast additionally got here amid romance rumors he’s relationship his “Only Murders” co-star Meryl Streep.
Though Brief denied they had been a pair on Invoice Maher’s “Club Random” podcast final 12 months, he’s continued to gas the romance rumors by stepping out with the Oscar winner a number of occasions since then.
