![]() ![]() When Boyd left Harrison, he was using cocaine and drinking heavily. Harrison was troubled by his wealth and fame: “He was really confused about why he was famous, this boy from Liverpool, why was he chosen? … Sometimes he delighted in it and sometimes he wanted to get away from it.” In 1974 Boyd eventually left Harrison (who had been a serial philanderer) and moved in with Clapton, who – by that stage, had switched from heroin addiction to alcohol.īoyd told Kim Hill both men had become rich and famous very young, so never really grew up. He wrote his 1971 hit 'Layla' for her, then holed up in his mansion doing heroin with his girlfriend Alice Ormsby-Gore. Seven years later, Clapton – a close friend of Harrison's, declared his love for Boyd. ![]() Both wrote classic love songs about her and both treated her badly.īoyd married Harrison in 1966, after meeting on the set of A Hard Day's Night in 1964. Her marriages to George Harrison, then later, Eric Clapton were tumultuous. Kim Hill talks to Pattie Boyd about her lifeīoyd has had a colourful life. ![]()
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