Ian McKellen Talks About Reuniting With His Long Lost Lady Love
Ian McKellen joined by his Mr. Holmes co-star Laura Linney on The View Wednesday and talked about one of his earliest loves, a girl named Wendy. McKellen told the panel, “She was 9 years old and I was 8 and we held hands by the sea and we parted after the holiday. We wrote letters to each other.”
It wouldn’t be the last time he saw her though, saying, “I was standing at the National Theater the other day, 64 years later after this event, and this little old lady coming to me and I thought, ‘Oh dear, what does she want?’ And she said, 'Hello Ian, I’m Wendy.’…And I’m thinking of writing a memoir, so I said, 'Do you have any of the letters that I wrote to you?’ She said, 'Oh yes, I kept them and, but then I burnt them on the day of my marriage.’ So God knows what was in those letters.”
