According to the Daily Mail, Anthony Hopkins wrote in his memoir “We Did Ok, Kid” that his marriage to actress Petronella Barker ended because he was afraid of “becoming physically violent.”
“At night, I would buy bottles of whisky at the shop and take them back to the apartment. My depression was limitless; the drink was my comfort. I brooded. She exploded,” Anthony Hopkins wrote.
The actor said that he and Barker realized they were not a good match when she was already pregnant with their daughter, Abigail.
He explained that his wife hated his working-class parents and would leave the house when they came to visit, though he himself admitted he was not an easy person to live with.
“I didn’t know how to open up, how to be human, how to stop myself from slipping into darkness,” confessed the star of “The Silence of the Lambs.”
Anthony Hopkins also shared that he had frequent arguments with his wife. He recalls an episode when he returned home exhausted after several days of filming in Scotland.
According to the newspaper, before he even took off his coat, Petronella began mocking him, looking at him with “total contempt” and calling him “Mr. Almighty and Important.”
“I had never been physically violent, but in that moment, I was seized with such disgust that I became afraid for myself and for her,” he wrote. After saying goodbye to his 14-month-old daughter, he packed his bags and left.
After the separation, Anthony Hopkins married Jennifer Lynton in 1973. The two divorced in 2002. He is currently married to antiques dealer Stella Arroyave, since 2003.
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