Elegant and charismatic, Audrey Hepburn made everyone fall in love with films like Roman Holiday or Breakfast at Tiffany's.
The public adored her, an affection that continues to this day: no one could resist her captivating gaze or her spectacular dressing style. However, the eternal Holly Golightly was not very lucky in love. Marked by the breakup of her parents when she was still a child, Audrey was destined to follow in her footsteps and end up divorcing herself.
That childhood trauma would accompany her throughout her life: "By leaving us, perhaps my father made me insecure forever," the actress once said. She married twice and separated twice, in both cases with a child in common. Although both of her marriages failed, she found stability in her adulthood: in 1980 she met the man with whom she would spend the rest of her days.
Mel Ferrer, her co-star in War and Peace
Audrey Hepburn passed through the altar for the first time in 1954. She married Mel Ferrer, an actor on whose resume we can find King Arthur's Knights and Lili. They were 12 years apart. Their marriage lasted until 1968, a 14-year relationship in which they worked together on the big screen (they even starred in an adaptation of War and Peace in 1956) and had a son, Sean. "They were happy and lived idyllically for more than the first decade of their relationship," her first-born son recalls.
"They lived and worked together every day for those 17 years. Although my father was a very demanding and difficult man. I think that also played a role in the deterioration of the relationship," says Sean Hepburn Ferrer. They ended their marriage in 1968. "I held on as long as I could. And we held on for the sake of the child. Also out of respect for the marriage and out of love for the person I once loved," Audrey once said.
The 'destructive' and unfaithful Andrea Dotti
The year after her breakup, she met the person who would become her second husband, the psychiatrist Andrea Dotti. They met on a cruise to which a mutual friend had invited them. "At the beginning of the marriage I was very happy to be the wife of a doctor. I remember Audrey helping Andrea prepare the lithium dose for the patients because she was passionate about it," says her friend Anna Cataldi, producer of the film Out of Africa .
Audrey Hepburn gave birth to her second child in 1970 and moved to Rome, where she settled her family. However, her life did not end up being as happy as she could have hoped for, and all because of her husband. Andrea Dotti had a "very destructive" side: he cheated on his wife on numerous occasions, being photographed with 200 women. Her continuous infidelities made Audrey suffer a lot, until one day the actress said enough and asked for a divorce. They separated in 1982.
Robert Wolders, the widower of Merle Oberon
During her stormy relationship with Andrea Dotti, Audrey Hepburn's path crossed that of Robert Wolders, her last great love. He was married to Merle Oberon and, upon the actress' death, he inherited her estate. In 1980, Robert auctioned off all the jewelry for charity and at that event he met Audrey. "We were both very unhappy and we talked about it. I was in one of the worst periods at the end of my marriage, so we cried over a few beers," Audrey Hepburn once said. Although they never married, they were together until her death in 1993.
