After a life of bouncing from one man to another, Melanie is feeling a bit gun shy. She is cautious with men and prefers to spend time with friends. She opened up with Porter about her divorce recently.
She said, “I think part of the reason my marriage to Antonio fell apart was that I was stuck; nobody else is to blame. It’s just that I personally got stuck and I won’t let that happen again, I want to enjoy life, I want to do whatever I want to do.”
Just Say No
At 60 years old and two years out of a divorce, Melanie said, “Don’t get married! There’s no need. [. . .] You don’t need to get married to have a child anymore, it’s not like there’s a stigma on a child, and getting married, you either go through the whole bullsh!t of a prenuptial or if you want to get divorced and you don’t have a prenuptial, then you wish you had a prenuptial.”
She went on. And she sounded like a woman who learned some valuable lessons from a lifetime of mistakes in marriage.
‘Marriage is Archaic’
She went on to say that she is never tying the knot again. Putting a lot of thought into the idea of marriage, she questioned the whole institution.
“Why not enjoy the person and have a good time and do whatever?” “Live together, don’t live together—but marriage seems archaic to me,” she explained. She used her marriage to Banderas as proof.
The Day They Met
The instant connection between Melanie and Antonio was apparent to all. Especially since they made few attempts to conceal the love they were feeling. At the time, Antonio Banderas was not yet a household name; 'Puss in Boots' did not exist. He was just breaking into the scene, and she was the perfect girl to have on his arm.
His wife in Spain and Melanie’s severing (for the second time) with Johnson were placed on the back burner, but those details were placed front and center on the covers of tabloids.
Another Side of Melanie Griffith
We know Melanie best on camera. Her bold and outgoing personality comes before her. But it’s not exactly the truth. Inside, she is incredibly shy. Her shyness created a difficult challenge for her.
Starting out as a model, she got to the point when she realized, after years of posing at awkward angles and attempting to avoid facing the camera, that she was not cut out for modeling and left it for acting.