Beverly D’Angelo opened up about her longtime relationship with actor Al Pacino in an Instagram post Monday.
The 71-year-old actress said she decided to share details about her relationship with Scarface actor, 83, after her ‘dm box got filled up with questions’ on the topic.
‘My story with Al began 27 years ago, two artists meeting, falling in love,’ said D’Angelo, who is mother to 22-year-old twins Olivia Pacino and Anton James Pacino with the Oscar-winning actor.
D’Angelo, who played Ellen Griswold in the National Lampoon’s Vacation franchise, said that they ‘lived together for seven years, had two children’ and eventually ‘broke up.’
Despite their split, she wrote, they ‘continued steadily on [their] journey as co parents- and came to share [their] lives with a deeper kind of intimacy, honesty and acceptance than a “traditional” relationship would have allowed.’
The latest: Beverly D’Angelo, 71, opened up about her longtime relationship with actor Al Pacino, 83, in an Instagram post Monday
D’Angelo, who played Ellen Griswold in the National Lampoon’s Vacation franchise, said that they ‘lived together for seven years, had two children’ and eventually ‘broke up’
D’Angelo said that she and Pacino bonded through their mutual passion of their craft.
‘We’ve always been linked on the creative level – our conversations about acting, the search/need for expression – that’s a conversation that started in 96 and continues to this day,’ she said.
D’Angelo, who has been seen on the CBS series True Lies, called her relationship with the Dog Day Afternoon actor ‘unique’ and ‘encompassing a wide breadth/depth of experiences and emotions, through thick and thin, a true friendship.’
She added, ‘There are infinite layers in every intimate relationship – and for me, Instagram isn’t the place to go into detail really….. but I wanna make sure you know I see and hear you, so this vid is a little bare bones primer in response to your questions.’
She added that most importantly she received the approval of her children before posting their images and story to social media.
D’Angelo opened up in the clip about her start with the House of Gucci actor, saying, ‘I lived with Al for seven years and we have two children; in 1996, we were on the same plane going from Los Angeles to New York.
‘He was seated in front of me, he said come up and sit beside me and by the time the plane landed, it was on.’
She said that the following year, ‘He looked me in the eye and said, “I want you to be the mother of my children.”‘
She continued, ‘Although I’d avoided that role my while life, I was deeply in love and I was 100 percent in.’
She said that they completed a round of in vitro fertilization in 1997, and ‘with a lot of effort and the miracles of modern science,’ they welcomed their twins in 2001.
D’Angelo said that she and Pacino bonded through their mutual passion of their craft of acting
The actress said she decided to share details about her relationship with Scarface actor after her ‘dm box got filled up with questions’ on the topic
Beverly’s children Anton James Pacino and Olivia Pacino and niece Courtney D’Angelo were pictured at a film premiere with her last November
D’Angelo shared a slideshow of family shots of the twins in their younger years
D’Angelo said that she and the Any Given Sunday star continue to share a ‘unique and profound friendship between two artists that endures to this day’
D’Angelo shared a slideshow of family shots of the twins in their younger years.
She said that eventually, things ‘got complicated’ and their ‘split was finalized in 2004.’
She added, ‘The power of our love for our children was the basis for resolving any conflicts and creating a new history as co-parents, leading individual lives separately but always intertwined as a family.’
She wrapped up in saying that she and the Any Given Sunday star continue to share ‘a unique and profound friendship between two artists that endures to this day – through thick and thin, 27 years now of doing it our way – and there you have it.’
