Barbra Streisand remembered her late co-star and former lover Ryan O’Neal as “funny and charming” amid news of his death.
“So sad to hear the news of Ryan O’Neal’s passing,” the legendary actress captioned a black and white Instagram photo of the young duo working together on Friday.
“We made two films together, ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ and ‘The Main Event.’ He was funny and charming, and he will be remembered.”
O’Neal “passed away peacefully” on Friday, his son, Patrick, announced.
In her recently-released memoir “My Name Is Barbra,” Streisand claimed she and the “Love Story” star first met at a dinner party in 1970, writing the actor, “fancied me and asked for my number.”
“We started seeing each other, and it was kind of a new dynamic for me . . . easy and casual,” she penned. “I remember a moment early on when he told me, ‘I love you,’ and I said, ‘What do you mean? You don’t know me.’ Trust me to be so literal.”
Although their relationship “fizzled” by the time they shot “What’s…
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