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Even professionally, she has had setbacks including both Hollywood commonalities and situations unique to her.

The woman is living her best life despite any tragedies she has endured.

Glenn Close posing at an event

For those paying attention, however, Close has been talking about her odd upbringing for years now.

Close graduated in 1974 with a dual degree in theatre and anthropology.

It was in the Moral Re-Armament movement that Close actually met her first husband, musician Cabot Wade.

Glenn Close smiling on a red carpet

That marriage, too, lasted a very short time.

This was the actor’s longest partnership, as the couple was married up until 2015.

After eight nominations, it feels downright cruel.

Glenn Close and David Shaw posing at an event

“Who in that category is a loser?

You’re there, you’re five people honored for the work that you’ve done by your peers.

What’s better than that?”.

Glenn Close smiling on the Oscars' red carpet

I can’t stop thinking about killing myself,'" Glenn revealed toPeople.

“For me, it was a shock.”

“No one ever talked about it,” Glenn said in a different Peopleinterview.

Glenn Close posing on red carpet with sister Jessie

“I did know that my mother’s half-brother had committed suicide and that her own mother was depressed.

She was also depressed and took meds for it.”

In particular, Close has discussed two upsetting auditions wherein she was treated inappropriately by the men in charge.

Glenn Close smiling at the Golden Globes

“There are about eight people sitting there, with Travolta in a bed.

And I wanted to kill myself …

I had pages, I hadn’t memorized it.

And he didn’t know his lines.

And I didn’t know what to do,” Close recalled toVarietyin 2021.

“It was … so horrible.

It was so humiliating.

And I realized now what the game was I should have just tried to seduce him.

It didn’t matter what I said.

It was like, ‘What’s the chemistry?’

That was not a fun experience.

And obviously, I didn’t get the role.”

“I did feel there was a collusion between him and the director,” she said.