Marilu Henner revealed the origin story behind her joke that Burt Reynolds got her "pregnant" after he directed her in an iconic scene on their show Evening Shade.
“I was doing Evening Shade at the time, and Burt Reynolds was directing an episode, and he had me do this stunt where I was in the grandstands and I had to, like, run, run, run, run, jump over, jump over [a] thing in a field,” Henner, 73, said while speaking to Us Weekly in an interview published on Saturday, September 13.
She then recalled going to a restaurant with her then-husband, Robert Lieberman, after she filmed the scene. “I went, ‘Oh, the Eagle has landed.’ He said, ‘What?’ I said, ‘No, I’m pregnant. Contact was made.’ Like, what I said [was], ‘Trust me, I’m pregnant.’ And sure enough, I was," she said.
“I tell everybody, ‘Burt Reynolds got me pregnant,’ even though he’s not the father of my children," Henner continued.
Henner shares two sons, Nicholas Lieberman and Joseph Lieberman, with Lieberman, whom she was married to from 1990 until 2001. Meanwhile, she married her current husband, Michael Brown, in 2006.
Reynolds and Henner worked together on the '90s sitcom Evening Shade, in which they starred as husband and wife. The series lasted four seasons and followed Woodrow "Wood" Newton (Reynolds), a former professional football player, as he tries to adjust to life in his hometown of Evening Shade, Arkansas, after taking on a job as a high school football coach.
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Henner also gushed about working with Reynolds on the show. “Burt Reynolds is one of my favorite people that I’ve ever known in my entire life,” she told the outlet of the beloved actor, who died at the age of 82 in 2018.
“I was devastated when he passed away,” Henner continued. “I had just seen him a couple months before, and every picture of anything that we did together just warms my heart and makes me realize how much I love him more and more.”
She added that she has several clear memories of their time together. “I could tell you all the dates — the first date I met him, the time we ended up doing a nude scene together — because, man, I loved him," she said.
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