Pattie Boyd Recalls the Moment That Made George Harrison 'Jealous' During Their 11-Year Marriage
Pattie Boyd Recalls the Moment That Made George Harrison 'Jealous' During Their 11-Year Marriage
Virginia ChamleeTue, May 26, 2026 at 12:59 PM UTC
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Pattie Boyd says George Harrison once got upset that she was on the cover of a magazine without him
On a recent podcast, Boyd spoke about whether intense publicity during the height of The Beatles' success affected their marriage
"He couldn't believe that they would put me on the paper and not him," Boyd said of her former husband
Pattie Boyd is opening up about her relationship with The Beatles' George Harrison — and how the late musician once got "jealous" of her own publicity.
The model and photographer, 82, appeared on a recent episode of the podcast Miss O’Dell: Abbey Road to Tulsa Time, hosted by Chris O’Dell. On the podcast, Boyd spoke about whether intense publicity during the height of The Beatles' success affected their marriage.
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"I know George was rather upset one time when I was on the cover of one of the trashy newspapers, you know, because I was wearing whatever I was wearing — something mad — and he couldn't believe that they would put me on the paper and not him," Boyd said.
She added: "Jealousy comes in many, many different forms. It's very odd."
Boyd first met Harrison in 1964, on the set of A Hard Day's Night. The pair married in 1966, but their relationship eventually came to an end, and their divorce was finalized in 1977.
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Theirs was a relationship that was part of a love triangle as Eric Clapton — a close friend of Harrison's at the time — had secretly fallen for Boyd years earlier.
After Boyd's split from Harrison, she and Clapton married in 1979, and the two divorced in 1989.
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Elsewhere on the podcast, Boyd said that she has not been contacted by anyone involved in the new Beatles biopics — despite the fact that an actress, Aimee Lou Wood, has been cast to play her.
The films — helmed by director Sam Mendes and starring Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr and Joseph Quinn as Harrison — are set to premiere in April 2028.
Harrison died on November 29, 2001.
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