In her portrayal, Clapton wasn’t sober for the entire time he and Pattie were associated (which he admits in his recent memoir, Clapton). Pattie, emotionally abandoned by George, has no real self to fall back on, having identified so very early on as the wife and muse of a great man.Įnter Eric Clapton, George Harrison’s friend, portrayed here as a cross-addicted, seductive manipulator who, over the course of several years, plays on Pattie’s insecurity and neediness. Everything falls apart at the same time: George cheats on Pattie (at one point with Maureen Starr, Ringo’s wife), John pushes Cynthia away for Yoko Ono, and Jane Asher leaves Paul McCartney after she catches him in their house in bed with another woman. Pattie’s description of how she and George grew apart is poignant, especially given her perspective, all these years later, on the immaturity and confusion that led each to push the other away when, all clichés aside, they needed each other the most. Poor Pattie, so accustomed to pleasing her man and so confounded by his behavior.
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