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On Wednesday’s episode ofThe Family Stallone,Sylvester Stalloneand his wifeJennifer Flavinlooked back on the first time they met during a night out in Hollywood in the ‘80s.
With Sylvester off in Atlantic City, New Jersey at his brotherFrank’s concert, Jennifer invited over her pal Kirsten.
“You have known Sly now for 35 years,” Jennifer observed told her best friends since middle school.
Kirsten affirmed, “I was there the night you met.”
In a confessional interview, Sly, now 76, recounted his version of the evening.
“I remember vividly the first time I met Jennifer,” he said. “I was in this dark restaurant, a few people. She came in and,whoa!Something happened. I just felt, like, this jolt, like — ‘Oh, did we just have a minor earthquake or something?'"
Kirsten took note at the time. “I’ll never forget seeing his face when he saw you for the first time,” she said to Jennifer. “I witnessed it.”
Jennifer, 54, felt the connection, too: “We just hit it off, it was crazy. We were inseparable all night.”
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After the restaurant, the trio headed to a nightclub — and Jennifer insisted on taking her own car instead of joining Sly in his limo.
“He’s like, ‘Come in the limo,’” Jennifer recalled to Kirsten. “We’re like, ‘No, we’re good! I’ve got the Dodge Duster parked in the back. We’ll follow you there.”
The three-time Oscar nominee remembered his first impression of the car.
“She has this Dodge Duster, Slimer colored, missing one headlight and a gas rag hanging out the back like a Molotov cocktail,” Sylvester told the cameras.
But the beat-up car didn’t affect how Sly felt about its owner.
“Things, as they say, happen when you least expect it,” theTulsa Kingstar said. “Nobody knows what life is going to bring. And then 35 years later, you look at your beautiful family and you realize, you’re the luckiest son of a bitch in the world.”
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Sylvester and Jennifer dated for six years after meeting in 1988. They briefly split in 1994 but got back together the following year. The couple welcomed their first of three daughters,Sophia, in August 1996. They tied the knot in 1997 and had two more children,SistineandScarlet, in June 1998 and May 2002, respectively.
Last August, Jenniferfiled for divorcefrom Sylvester,claiminghe “engaged in the intentional dissipation, depletion and/or waste of marital assets which has had an adverse economic impact on the marital estate.” Slydenied the claims.
The next month, however,Sylvester and Jennifer reconciled. A Florida court filing stated that the pair determined “that is in the best interests of each of them individually, and more importantly collectively as a family, to resolve all issues attendant to the dissolution of their marriage in a dignified, amicable and private manner out-of-court.”
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source: people.com
