Date: 15th January 2002

80's Film Star Reveals Nasty Truth About Hollywood


Eighties film star DEBRA WINGER has vented her dislike of the Hollywood film industry - branding it a world full of "dishonesty and disregard". Winger, star of such classics as TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983) and Officer and A Gentleman, An (1982), claims the people she was "dealing with" are the ones who turned her off pursuing further success in the movie world, causing her to vanish into near-obscurity.

In the February (2002) issue of Premiere magazine she says, "It was a real struggle for me. And the older you get, the more you feel hypocritical for living off it. " And the brunette beauty, 46, also speaks of her reputation for being difficult to work with, explaining,

"It keeps away the fainthearted. But I don't think I'm unkind. I think I might have been unkind when I was young. Listen, I did wild things, I lived a wild life. I consumed much. I just exploded with my independence. But I don't think I hurt anyone. I was too busy hurting myself. "

Winger will return to screens in BIG BAD LOVE (2001) - her first film since 1995's FORGET PARIS (1995) - but refuses to term it a comeback. She says, "I'm not coming back anywhere. I am, however, many years older, and my interests are totally different, and there's nothing to come back to. " (RGS/LA/NFA)

Source: WENN