Dirty Dancing star Kelly Bishop details affair with married man before finding true love

Kelly Bishop knew when it was time to walk away from a romance doomed from the start.The actress, who made her mark in “Dirty Dancing” and “Gilmore Girls,” has written a memoir, “The Third Gilmore Girl.” In it, she details her decades-long career in showbiz and the pitfalls that came with it.For her book, the 80-year-old deeply reflected on private memories that shaped her life, ones she’s never shared until now.One of them was about having an affair with a married man after getting her first Broadway show, “Golden Rainbow,” in the summer of 1967.In the book, she described her former flame, who remained unnamed, as “a highly successful publicity agent.”“I knew that it was wrong,” Bishop told Fox News Digital on eventually ending the relationship.“You’re not supposed to be doing that,” she admitted.

“He wasn’t either… I started thinking about his wife, who may or may not have known about us, who may have experienced other affairs he had.I don’t know.

But I knew this wasn’t fair to her.”In the book, Bishop described the union as “exquisite” and “romantic.” Only two people knew about it, including a “discreet” close friend and her mother.At first, it seemed easy.In the book, Bishop wrote she never met or even saw his wife, which “made it easy to ignore her existence.”But Bishop said she loved him “so deeply” that it “ended our affair.”“Right around the time I left ‘Golden Rainbow,’ the reality finally sank in that if this man’s wife loved him nearly as much as I did, I was doing her a huge, incredibly unkind disservice,” Bishop wrote. “I had to say goodbye to him, and I did.

It was painful for both of us – I think he was genuinely in love with me too, and it broke my heart to hurt him.But I guess no one ever said that doing the right thing would always feel good.”Bishop told Fox News Digital that as much as she loved him, she had no regrets calling it quits for good, even if it mea...