Anthony Hopkins Reveals He Nearly Got Violent With Ex in 1st Marriage

Anthony Hopkins and his first wife, Petronella Barker, did not have a great marriage. “Petronella and I were very different from each other, but we were in love,” Hopkins, 87, wrote in his We Did OK, Kid memoir, released on Tuesday, November 4. The former couple tied the knot in September 1967, and “what followed were the worst two years of my life,” Hopkins wrote, noting that their “opposing personalities” and his struggles with alcohol had “doomed the relationship from the start.” Hopkins wrote that when they realized “how awful a match we were,” Barker was already pregnant. They welcomed “b