Naomi Watts remembers a remark husband Billy Crudup as soon as made about his pubic hair because the “most romantic words” she has ever heard.
Half guidebook, half memoir, the film star’s new e-book, “Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I’d Known About Menopause,” will get frank about getting older.
In an anecdote excerpted by Us Weekly from the e-book launched Tuesday, Watts explains how Crudup helped put her comfortable when she advised him why she was sporting a hormone patch the primary evening they slept collectively.
“Mortified” to disclose she was within the midst of menopause on the time of their first tryst, the “Mullholland Drive” actor recalled how all of her embarrassment pale away when Crudup replied, “Hey, if it makes you feel better: I’ve got gray hairs on my balls.”
Earlier than Crudup’s confession about his downstairs hairs, Watts remembers wringing her fingers about how the “Almost Famous” star would react to her well being standing.
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“I’d started wearing the patch a couple of years earlier for hormone therapy,” she writes in “Dare I Say It.” “I was worried that if he saw it he would realize it meant I was menopausal: no longer a vibrant, fertile being.”
Hoping to cover any signal her physique was altering, she “ripped off” her patch and “scrubbed the skin raw” within the toilet.
“Unfortunately, the patch’s adhesive leaves a mark on the skin that’s very hard to get rid of,” she remembered.
When Crudup requested Watts if she was doing OK, she mentioned she emerged from the lavatory full of tension.
“I stumbled and reached for words, but nothing would quite come out,” the English actor writes in her e-book.
Moderately than decide his then-girlfriend, Watts mentioned, “a smile broke over his face.”
“He seemed very relieved that the issue wasn’t a lack of desire,” she recalled of Crudup’s response. “He told me he thought it was great I was taking care of myself, and he asked me how he could help.”
It was then that he replied along with his personal candid quip about getting older.
“Those to date remain the most romantic words I’ve ever heard, onscreen or off, and that includes the script of every movie I’ve ever been in,” Watts provides in “Dare I Say It.”
“And even this same man’s very loving marriage proposal, which came seven years later,” she mused about her longtime accomplice, whom she married in a New York Metropolis courthouse marriage ceremony in June 2023.
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The actor advised the Los Angeles Instances she determined to put in writing “Dare I Say It,” which is stuffed with wit and sensible knowledge, regardless of the taboos that exist round speaking about menopause.
“I wished there was a book when I was suffering through it, flailing and filled with shame and doubt and confusion,” she advised the paper in an interview revealed Tuesday.
