Then there was Daryl Hannah, star of films like “Steel Magnolias” and “Splash.”
Theirs was a love that Hannah reportedly never got over.
As a source alleged toOK!
Take a look at John F. Kennedy Jr.’s relationship with Daryl Hannah.
In November 1960, the president-elect addressed reporters early in the morning outside his Washington, D.C. home.
He’d been elected earlier that month and the day before he was down in Florida.
Three short years later, John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
On November 25, 1963 the young boy’s birthday JFK Jr. attended his father’s funeral.
Biographer Steven M. Gillon toldPeoplethat the young man hated to talk about what that loss meant to him.
“It was a topic that John did not discuss,” Gillon said.
“The only topic that was absolutely off-limits.”
The latter film paired Hannah with Tom Hanks, another star on the rise.
Hannah later toldEmpire Magazinethat their iconic underwater kiss was difficult to film.
“Underwater sex is always over-romanticised.”
Hannah disliked her time on the film, tellingThe Irish Examinerthat she didn’t get along with Stone.
TBS and the producer of the documentary, Fox Television Studios, obliged.
Both were on vacation in St. Martin when they crossed paths.
Nevertheless, Hannah caught his eye.
After all, it was hardnotto notice her.
On that vacation, Hannah clutched a teddy bear at all times, all vacation long.
Even though he had a girlfriend on vacation with him, Kennedy couldn’t help but be intrigued.
Hannah’s teddy bear stunt, in fact, would continue long into her first brushes with stardom.
AWashington Postprofile from 1986 claimed that Hannah had only recently stopped bringing teddy bears when she traveled.
Still, Hannah protested the idea that this said anything about her intelligence.
She told The Washington Post, “I’m not like a ditz, you know.”
Daryl Hannah’s stepfather was Jerry Wexler, a high-profile Democratic donor.
In other words, it made sense that Kennedy and Hannah crossed paths again.
It didn’t work out, but they reunited that year at a wedding anyway.
At the time, John was dating actor Christina Haag and Daryl was involved with Jackson Browne.
That year, paparazzi photographed them on a yacht together.
Hannah reportedly wanted the relationship to become exclusive, but John was resistant.
Whenever Hannah and Browne fought, she would turn to John for comfort.
According to Andersen, John would tell his friends, “He’s mean to her.
They’ve got a lot of problems.”
Shortly thereafter, they moved in together.
The two frequently fought, and Hannah reportedly kicked him out of their shared apartment at times.
One friend told Andersen that they suspected the fighting was because Hannah was quite opinionated.
“People gave John a lot of room to pontificate.
He was JFK’s son, after all,” they said.
“But Daryl grew up around big party donors and politicians as well as movie industry types.
She had her own opinions and she let him know.”
According to Christopher Andersen’s biography “The Good Son,” that seems to have been an understatement.
(That’s no surprise, consideringJackie’s well-publicized feelings about Madonna, another ex-girlfriend of her son).
Jackie apparently wasn’t the only Kennedy who disliked Hannah for John-John.
John’s sister Caroline, too, wasn’t a fan of her presence in their lives.
Andersen wrote that Caroline once told her brother, “Kiddo, she’s nice.
But she’s not the one.”
“She was smart,verysmart nothing like she might seem at first glance.
She was a great person to be around,” Barlow recalled.
It seems that Kennedy leaned on his friends when tensions with his family grew difficult.
Jackie and Caroline Kennedy both canceled, and John and Hannah were left on their own.
Her friend Sugar Rautbord told Andersen, “She was desperate to marry him.”
Three hours after the initial calls went out, John called all his friends back.
The wedding was not, in fact, going to happen.
“What do you want me to do?”
he yelled at his girlfriend, according to “The Good Son.”
As the argument spiraled, he eventually told her, “Beat it!”
Getting in a taxi, he left her alone on the sidewalk.
Sadly, Jackie’s cancer spread, and that May, she was readmitted to the hospital.
John was out of town at the time.
“John longed to be with his mother, but he agreed to his girlfriend’s request anyway.”
Jackie died days later.
A few weeks later, they vacationed at Hyannis Port together.
“I felt so bad about him that all she cared about was her dog.”
Hannah once again pressed John to marry, even proposing to him herself.
By that summer, the relationship was done for good.
A friend told Andersen, “They were wonderful apart.
It was exhausting to be around them.”
Rumors swirled that fall that they were together, even though Bessette was supposedly dating model Michael Bergin.
“He’s just a friend,” Bessette told Bergin, according to “The Good Son.”
She continued, saying, “I think he’s seeing Daryl Hannah.
It’s nothing.”
JFK Jr. and Hannah would break up the following year, and John-John finally pursued Bessette.
Inhis book, Christopher Anderson noted that Bessette and Hannah looked superficially similar.
Unlike Hannah, though, Bessette was a good listener.
Their romance was a quick one, though.
By the end of 1995, they were engaged, and they married the following fall.
Sadly, it wasn’t just Kennedy’s early life that was marked by tragedy.
In 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife died in a plane crash.
She expressed her appreciation for their dedication to public service.
“It was quite a beautiful thing to see.”
