Martha Stewart has a scrumptious story to inform about Sir Anthony Hopkins, whom she mentioned she has dated prior to now.
Stewart, 80, revealed on the “Ellen DeGeneres Show” that she needed to break up with the Oscar-winner, 84, after he starred within the 1991 thriller “The Silence of the Lambs.”
It seems she merely couldn’t separate the Welsh actor from his character — creepy convicted cannibal Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
“I’ve an enormous, scary home in Maine that’s means by itself on 100 acres within the forest, and I couldn’t even think about taking Anthony Hopkins there,” Stewart instructed DeGeneres with a chuckle.
“I couldn’t — all I might consider was him consuming, …” added the life-style guru, an obvious reference to his character’s horrific culinary habits.
“And also you stopped due to that?” DeGeneres, 63, requested, to which the Martha Stewart Residing namesake merely replied, “Yeah,” to laughs and applause from the viewers.
Whereas Stewart didn’t say precisely when she dated the “Thor” and “The Father” star, the “Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Occasion” host was beforehand married to Andrew Stewart from 1961 till 1990. Hopkins, in the meantime, tied the knot with his third wife, Stella Arroyave, in 2003.
Hopkins scored his first Oscar for Greatest Actor in a Main Position in 1992 for his portrayal of the character in “The Silence of the Lambs.”
In the course of the chat, Stewart additionally opened up that she doesn’t have any physique ink — “I’ve no tattoos. I wouldn’t consider having a tattoo,” she mentioned — a indisputable fact that appeared to shock DeGeneres.
“I wouldn’t both, however I simply thought, you’re powerful,” the “Ellen” star responded.
“It’s not about being powerful — it’s about, , rising previous with tattoos that get stretched out and ugly,” Stewart defined. “Let different individuals get tattoos.”
