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‘Charlie’s Angels’ icon Jaclyn Smith reveals the title of her co-star who proposed to her in a threesome

This angel was moderately ungodly.

‘Charlie’s Angels’ star Jaclyn Smith has revealed that her bandmate Tanya Roberts as soon as proposed to her and her husband in a threesome.

Talking about her time on “Charlie’s Angels” in her lately launched memoir “I As soon as Knew a Man Named Charlie,” Smith recalled Tanya’s open marriage to her husband, Barry Roberts.

‘Charlie’s Angels’ star Jaclyn Smith (pictured centre) revealed that her bandmate Tanya Roberts (pictured left) requested her to have a threesome. ©Columbia Footage/Courtesy Everett Assortment
Smith wrote in her new memoir, “I As soon as Knew a Man Named Charlie,” that Tanya had an open marriage to her husband, Barry Roberts, per Individuals. Books Gallery

Tanya “did not hesitate in any respect to do that, or to ask individuals to ‘swing’ with them,” Smith wrote earlier than diving into her personal expertise.

The “Bourne Id” star recalled that, on a flight to Hawaii, Tanya requested him to affix her and Barry for a threesome.

Regardless of her refusal, she discovered Tanya’s “honesty about her sexuality” “courageous and self-aware,” Smith wrote.

Smith recollects that on a flight to Hawaii, Tanya requested him to affix her and Barry (pictured in 1981) for a threesome, however she refused. Ron Galella Assortment by way of Getty Photographs
Smith, nonetheless, didn’t disgrace Tanya (pictured in “Charlie’s Angels”) for her sexual preferences and known as her “courageous and self-aware” in his memoir. ©Aaron Spelling Prods/Courtesy Everett Assortment
Tanya (pictured in 2012) died in 2021 at age 65 following a extreme urinary tract an infection inflicting sepsis. Getty Photographs

Smith, now 80, and Tanya developed a powerful friendship after the latter joined “Charlie’s Angels” as Julie Roger within the last season.

The present, which ran for 5 seasons from 1976 to 1981, adopted three feminine police academy graduates who go away boring workplace jobs to work as personal detectives for an invisible millionaire named Charlie Townsend.

Smith – who performed Kelly Garrett and was the one solid member to star on the present for all 5 seasons – initially starred alongside Farrah Fawcett and Kate Jackson earlier than the trio turned family names in a single day.

Smith (pictured along with her Charlie’s Angels co-stars) paid a candy tribute to her following her loss of life. ©Aaron Spelling Prods/Courtesy Everett Assortment
Smith turned a family title when she landed the position of Kelly Garrett on “Charlie’s Angels.” Everett Assortment / Everett Assortment
She was the one actress to keep up her position for all 5 seasons from 1976 to 1981. Everett Assortment / Everett Assortment

Regardless of their newfound fame, Jackson left the key detective sequence in 1979 and was changed by actress Shelley Hack, who was additionally finally changed by Tanya. Fawcett, in the meantime, was changed by Cheryl Ladd after only one season as Jill Munroe.

Tanya lastly died in January 2021 on the age of 65. Her companion revealed to the Publish that she died from a blood an infection ensuing from an preliminary urinary tract an infection and hepatitis C.

On the time, Smith posted a tribute to her co-star on social media, praising her for the “pleasure” she introduced “to so many individuals” in her position on “Charlie’s Angels.”

The mannequin additionally explains how cocaine use was widespread on the set of the sequence, though she insists she by no means participated in it. Everett Assortment / Everett Assortment
Regardless of the ups and downs all through the sequence, Smith writes in his memoir that his bond together with his unique co-stars, Fawcett and Jackson (pictured in 2006), by no means broke. USA TODAY Community by way of Reuters Join

In his memoir, Smith additionally revealed rampant drug use on the set of the enduring sequence, writing: “The extra drug use I noticed, the extra time I spent in my RV. I used to be there quite a bit by the top of the sequence.”

Smith clarified, nonetheless, that she has “by no means” used cocaine and “by no means will” as a result of “I’ve seen this drug, specifically, flip individuals into the worst model of themselves.”

Regardless of the ups and downs, she writes that her bonds along with her unique co-stars Fawcett – who died in 2009 – and Jackson remained shut.

“After the applause, the friendship remains to be there,” she writes. “This brotherhood was robust.”

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