Barbra Streisand talks losing virginity after trying marijuana
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Barbra Streisand explained her first "love affair", including her accidental marijuana use, in telling new autobiography.
She wrote about a man which she had spent a handful of "interesting evenings", including a night where the young singer and actress met with him and lost her virginity.
Under a "full moon", she described, he offered her a cigarette which unbeknownst to Barbra turned out to be marijuana. Barbra wrote: "I took a puff and went weak in the knees. I thought it was him. Turns out it was marijuana, which I had rarely smoked before (and rarely after)."
After that night, Barbra claimed that the man was unkind to her, "as if nothing had ever happened". The memory left Barbra with a low-feeling that eventually helped fuel her work.
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The man snubbed Barbra, but that moment stayed with her forever. She explained: "God, I hated him for not being kinder. But it started my wheels spinning. Some nights I felt like a cat in heat... my body ached for him... feelings I had never experienced before. At least it gave me some more material to work with... When I sang about wanting someone, for the first time I actually understood it."
The star also used her memoir as an opportunity to squash claims about "nonexistent romances" from unauthorised biographies. She went on to slam a particular claim about a peer during her education, but even the teacher of the class didn't recognise his name. In her autobiography, Barbra decided to reveal the truth, dispelling rumours.
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Barbra wrote: "The idea that someone could make up a story about a romance with me... well, it's disgusting. It sounds like such a profound invasion of my life. And then the story gets perpetuated in book after book, because the people who write them just keep recycling the same made-up junk."
My Name Is Barbra (published by Penguin) is now available to purchase in bookshops and on Amazon.
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