She boldly contacted Stallone while he was staying at a Manhattan hotel.
Nielsen slid a photo of herself under Stallone’s door with a handwritten note on the back.
According toEntertainment Weekly, the message read: “My name is Brigitte Nielsen.
I’d really like to meet you.
Here’s my number.”
Stallone was immediately and obviously intrigued, likely both with Nielsen and the audacious nature of her actions.
That very night, he called the number she left him on the back of the photo.
Stallone would also go over to meet her.
It turned out to beanother adversity in Sylvester Stallone’s life.
The two were married in 1985, only months after they met.
All rumors were denied.
When reflecting on her career during an “Oprah: Where Are They Now?”
interview, Nielsen said she shouldn’t have married Stallone.
“If I would go back in time, I shouldn’t have married him.
And he shouldn’t have married me!
I don’t want to sit here and come across as an angel.
I probably was also a pain in the butt at times …
