KallMeKris

You know, I don't know.

There's, again, so much psychological trauma that happened to her.

But word would get out as to where they were getting married and several hundred people showed up outside the Scottsdale Methodist Church.

So the staff taped butcher paper across every window to block the view.

And the press called it the glittering union of the 20th century.

because two of the most beautiful faces in Hollywood riding a Corvette across America together while radio stations tracked their progress.

And Wood recalled it years later saying, quote, radio stations would announce we had just passed through and people would wait for us in every little town, unquote.

And for their honeymoon, the two of them took a yacht out into the Florida Keys because both of them loved the ocean.

And it was one of the things that drew them together.

Though even then, Natalie mentioned her fear of the water.

And for a while, it looked like a love story the public could believe in.

Unfortunately, it wasn't.

And the couple announced their separation on June 20th, 1961, only a few years later, and the divorce was finalized on April 27th, 1962.

And the official story was pretty vague.

And the gossip columns filled in their own versions, of course, and rumors spread that Natalie had started an affair with Warren Beatty, her co-star in Splendor in the Grass.

And over the years, the press stopped treating it as gossip and just started printing it as though it were true.

But that wasn't what happened.

And the truth of what ended the marriage didn't come out for years.

And multiple sources have since confirmed the same story.

Because sometime in early 1961, Natalie discovered Wagner in a sexual relationship with a man.