Dustin Hoffman threatened at gunpoint by husband of woman he was having affair with
Dustin Hoffman has recalled the awkward moment the husband of the woman he was sleeping with confronted him with a gun.
Dustin Hoffman was held at gunpoint by the husband of a woman he was having an affair with.
The 89-year-old actor has recalled his time having a fling "with a married woman" when she invited him over after her husband had gone to bed.
Appearing on the Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend podcast, he said: “I was having an affair with a married woman.
"She thought that once her husband went to sleep that he stayed asleep. I was invited to come over after he went to sleep.”
Dustin revealed he and the mystery woman were having a "festival of sorts" when her husband "walked in with a gun" and ordered him out of their home.
He added: “When you have a gun pointed at you — first of all, that hole is much bigger than the actual hole — you realise how, any second, he’s gonna pull that trigger.
“His finger is on the trigger and you think, any second. You realise, that’s it. I’m gonna die. You will do anything to avoid getting killed.”
The Hook actor's love life became much calmer when he married first wife Anne Byrne in 1969, until their split in 1980.
As well as having daughter Jenna, 55, with Anne, Dustin also adopted her daughter Karina, 60, during their time together.
He then moved on with Lisa Gottsegen Hoffman, who is 17 years his junior, and married her the same year he and Anne divorced.
The couple, who had been family friends for a long time before their romance, have children Jake, 45, Rebecca, 43, Maxwell, 42, and 39-year-old Ali together.
Back in 2017, he told Closer Weekly that he and Lisa are "more in love" than ever before, and their romance "continues to grow".
He quipped: "I say in Hollywood it is like dog years, so you have to multiply that by seven."
Meanwhile, his wife said: "We work hard at it. I knew I was going to end up with Dusty, and that my life would be traveling around with him.”
Despite his success and long lasting relationship, Dustin still holds onto some of the insecurities from his childhood.
The actor - who studied at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music before he decided to go into acting - told GQ: "What you feel about yourself for the first few years of your life never disappears, particularly in the formative years.
"You come to terms with it in a certain way, but it's painful. And you can work through that pain. But I think you keep vestiges of all your pain."
Dustin, who was the shortest kid in his high school class in Los Angeles, has always been self conscious about his appearance.
He quipped: "You can say it, I'm ugly, I'm ugly!
"I always joke, they'll have the sexiest man in the world or whatever on the cover of People, and I'll say, 'Sorry, honey, never gonna make this cover!' And I never have, because I figure, well, yeah, you've gotta be handsome."
