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There was a hint of flirtation from their very first meeting.

“He looked through my portfolio and said, ‘I need to see your legs.

Linda Gray and Ed Thrasher in the ’80s

In the flesh.’

He wanted to see higher up her skirt, but Linda refused.

“‘That’s all you get,'” she told him.

Linda Gray and Ed Thrasher smiling

“He laughed and he hired me.”

It didn’t take long for the two to fall in love.

However, during their honeymoon in Mexico, Linda had this realization that she had made a terrible mistake.

“I knew from night one that my marriage was not a love match,” she confessed.

“But what could I do?

I was stuck.”

As the “Dallas” alum toldHello!in 2015, the union wasn’t serving her.

“We’re living his dream, but what about mine?

Of course, women stayed at home and raised their children that was the way it was.”

She added, “But I was like, ‘Is that all there is?'”

“I thought, ‘If I don’t get out of this marriage, I will die.'”

Finally, it was time for her and Ed to have the talk.

“I told him, ‘I can’t be married anymore,'” Linda recounted.

“He barely reacted.

‘Okay,’ he said.

‘Do what you have to do.'”

If not for our marriage, our two beautiful children wouldn’t have been born.”

He was 74 years old.

He was 56 at the time of his death, according toThe U.S. Sun.