Hollywood icon Dyan Cannon is known for hit movies like Heaven Can Wait and Such Good Friends. But she is perhaps best known for her marriage to the legendary actor Cary Grant. The 88-year-old recently opened up that being a Hollywood starlet in the ’70s wasn’t easy, and it was only after hitting rock bottom that she found comfort in the arms of Jesus.
“I became a movie star with my name above the title. I married a man who was like the most famous man in the world. And that was all good, but it was like a band-aid,” she shared on the podcast God’s Table Hollywood, which she hosts alongside Tracy Bregman, Kym Douglas-Robertson, and Christine Avanti-Fischer.
During an episode where the women shared about how they came to know God, Cannon said she grew up with a Jewish mom and a dad who believed in Jesus, which, she says, was a recipe for trouble.
“I came from a home where there was a lot of turmoil,” she said. “It became a war.”
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“When I left home, I said, ‘I don’t want anything to do with You, God. You’re a troublemaker. All You’ve done in my home is cause trouble.'”
Cannon soon met Grant, who was more than 30 years her senior. They married in 1965, had one child, Jennifer Grant, in 1966, and by 1968, the marriage began to disintegrate.
The actress says she did everything in her power to save her marriage, even taking drugs at Grant’s encouragement.
“He thought it was a gateway to God,” she told the Los Angeles Times in 2011. “He thought it was going to help him find peace.”
“I knew I shouldn’t do it, but I did it to please him and to save our marriage,” she added.
Cannon opened up, sharing more details about her marriage with her friends on God’s Table, saying, “I was in a nut house ‘cuz we were doing LSD, lots of LSD.”
The couple eventually divorced, and Cannon said she then tried to ease her pain with pills and marijuana. She suffered a mental breakdown and ended up, as she said, “locked up” in a “nuthouse.”
“Most of my best friends didn’t know about it,” she told the L.A. Times.
She said that several months later, she met some women who began to minister to her. And although she was hesitant at first, she began to open her heart up to God.
And He began to speak to her.
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