Barbra Streisand and Don Johnson Split Because Their Duet “Made Him Very Insecure”

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Don Johnson is better known for his starring roles in shows including Miami Vice and Nash Bridges than he is for his musical ability, but the actor did have a singing career back in the ’80s. He released two albums and also collaborated with his girlfriend at the time, Barbra Streisand . In her new memoir, My Name Is Barbra , Streisand writes that their duet actually marked the beginning of the end of their relationship, because Johnson was so “insecure” about singing with her.

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As reported by Entertainment Weekly , Streisand reveals in her autobiography that she was attracted to Johnson right away when she met him during a trip to Aspen, Colorado. “This guy was lean and tan, with an easy grin (and good teeth),” she writes. “His name was Don Johnson, and he was the heartthrob of the moment on the TV series Miami Vice . I have to admit, I’m very attracted to attractive men. (Okay, so I’m superficial!) It’s almost like an aesthetic thing… like a piece of art. I collect!” Streisand says that their relationship was “pure fun.”

When they were together, Streisand and Johnson recorded the song “Till I Loved You,” which was released in 1988 and reached No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100. She says in her book that this is when their previously carefree relationship started to splinter. Streisand went to see Johnson in Canada where he was working, which she calls “a painful visit.” She felt that Johnson didn’t want her there and writes that “he didn’t want to listen to a demo of [their] song.”

The now 81-year-old goes on to explain that it wasn’t the song itself that was the problem. “It was Don’s attitude afterward… singing with me apparently made him feel very insecure,” she writes. “And instead of talking about it honestly, he just became very cold, and mistrustful, and angry. I tried to be sympathetic. I certainly had no intention of ruining his career, but it turned out he was concerned about exactly that. It seemed like an overreaction to me, but clearly he was upset, and therefore so was I.”

Streisand withdrew from the relationship, because she wasn’t getting the “honesty and communication” she craved from Johnson. She says that the final straw was when she called Johnson only for his ex-wife Melanie Griffith answered the phone. Griffith and Johnson had been briefly married in 1976.

“At that point she was in rehab, and Don had conquered his own drug habit and was trying to help. (By the way, I’m not revealing any secrets. Both of them have been very open about it.),” the memoir continues. “I had no problem with him talking to her, but I did have a problem with him not having the courtesy to tell me the truth about their current relationship. I can’t be with a man who is not straight with me emotionally.” Johnson went on to get back together with Griffith. They were married for a second time from 1989 to 1996.

USA Today asked Johnson about “Till I Loved You” during a 2021 interview. Questioned about whether they’d ever record a follow-up , the actor said, “I’d say no, but you never say never. Hell, anything can happen. Honest to God, I spend most of my days going, ‘I cannot wait to get up tomorrow and see what the [expletive] is going to happen next.’ My life has turned into a very entertaining place.”

He also commented on his relationship with Streisand in a 2014 interview with The Telegraph ( via Yahoo! ). “I found her fascinating,” Johnson said. “A profoundly interesting and funny woman. She opened my eyes to a lot of things I hadn’t even considered. We’re still close. We don’t see each other much, but when we do it’s like that. [He snapped .] Like a minute hasn’t passed.”

In My Name Is Barbra , Streisand says that she sometimes sees Johnson at events to this day. “Thirty years later, I’ll sometimes run into Don at a party given by mutual friends. We hug, and he always whispers in my ear, ‘I love you,’” she writes. “I don’t say it back.”

Barbra Streisand Says Marlon Brando Propositioned Her With His Wife in the Next Room

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If her upcoming memoir clocking in at 992 pages is any indication, Barbra Streisand has a lot of stories to tell. One particularly scandalous one involves late actor Marlon Brando , who became a friend of the star. According to Streisand’s book, Brando once propositioned her while his wife was in the very next room. The Oscar-winner turned him down, but it wasn’t the end of their relationship. It also wasn’t the last time that he hit on her.

Read on to find out more about Streisand and Brando’s relationship, which traces back to her crush on him before they ever met.

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Streisand was interviewed by Vanity Fair ahead of the Nov. 7 release of her memoir, My Name Is Barbra . The profile recaps a chapter of the book titled “Brando,” in which Streisand writes that the actor asked her to have sex with him while they were at a party in 1966. At the time, she would have been 24 while Brando was 42.

According to the book, Brando told Streisand, “I’d like to [expletive] you” while his wife was in an adjoining room. (The article does not state which wife was present, however. Brando had overlapping marriages with Movita Castaneda and Tarita Teriipaia , though the Castaneda marriage was later annulled.)

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According to her book, Streisand and Brando became friends and stayed that way until his death in 2004. The now-81-year-old also writes that after Brando saw the 1968 film adaptation of Funny Girl , he called her and said, “You were really good, but you run funny.” Vanity Fair ‘s Radhika Jones told Streisand that “Brando” is “one of the wilder chapters [she’s] ever encountered in literature.” The author responded, “Well, he’s Marlon Brando!”

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During a 2012 appearance on Piers Morgan Tonight , Streisand told another story about spending time with Brando. This one was about a road trip they took together in the ’70s.

“[Brando] wanted to take me to the desert, to see the wildflowers,” she said, adding that he said he wanted to “sleep over in a ghost town.”

Streisand said that she rejected his advances. “I was such a nice Jewish girl that I just said, ‘Marlon, I can’t stay overnight with you. I’ll go with you for the day.’” Again, she added that they remained friends and would talk on the phone “for hours and hours.”

Evidence of Streisand and Brando’s friendship was shared by John Travolta in on Instagram in 2020 . In a “flashback Friday” post, Travolta shared a photo of himself, his late wife Kelly Preston , Streisand, her husband James Brolin , Brando, and others. In the picture, Streisand sits on Brando’s lap. Travolta wrote in the caption, “A special party for Marlon Brando at Barbra Streisand’s house #FBF.” He did not specify what year the photo was taken.

Long before they ever met, Brando became Streisand’s celebrity crush after she saw him in 1955’s Guys and Dolls .

“Since I was 13, Marlon Brando was my favorite. I saw him in Guys and Dolls —and that was it,” she told W magazine in 2016. “Interestingly, there was a period of 27 years when I didn’t sing in public, because of stage fright, and when I finally did, I created a scenario in which I sang ‘I’ll Know’ with Marlon Brando in Guys and Dolls . I put myself in his movie! I invited Brando to my house to see the piece, and he made me take him through my entire show. We then watched a movie together. It was wonderful: He was my idol, my biggest crush.”

“I’ll Know” is a song from the Guys and Dolls . When Streisand performed the song at Madison Square Garden for her 1994 live album The Concert , she spoke about Brando and the film before singing it.

“This friend of mine named Barbara Sankell , who knew that I wanted to be an actress told me about this actor named Marlon Brando, who was in a movie called Guys and Dolls , which I also didn’t know was from a Broadway play. And so I went to see it, and it was truly a life-altering experience seeing Marlon Brando for the first time. It was the only movie that I ever sat through twice—just to get to see him again and to have another Mello Roll. Anyway, I’ll never forget this song.”