{"id":855715,"date":"2026-08-12T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/855715\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:50:09","slug":"grease-star-says-shes-happy-being-a-recluse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/855715\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Grease&#8217; Star Says She&#8217;s &#8216;Happy Being A Recluse&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGrease\u201d star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/stockard-channing\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Stockard Channing\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a7c7327e4b07b8d6225e3e7\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/topic\/stockard-channing\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stockard Channing<\/a> is opening up about her life as a \u201crecluse\u201d in London. <\/p>\n<p>The actor, 82, wrote an essay for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/life-style\/celebrity\/article\/stockard-channing-life-in-the-day-cxlzm2hg7\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"U.K.\u2019s Sunday Times\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a7c7327e4b07b8d6225e3e7\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/life-style\/celebrity\/article\/stockard-channing-life-in-the-day-cxlzm2hg7\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.K.\u2019s Sunday Times<\/a> over the weekend about what spurred her move across the pond. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince just before COVID I\u2019ve been living in London,\u201d Channing explained. \u201cMy partner, Daniel [Gillham], died in 2014 and it was more devastating than I realized; it had a lag effect. The pattern of my life shifted, so I shifted my life from Maine.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve lived alone since I lost Daniel and I\u2019m happy being a recluse. I was married four times before Daniel and they all represent epochs of me,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cChildren were thought about and, yeah, I think about them now because it\u2019d be great to have someone taking care of me,\u201d Channing added. \u201cBut, hey, children can be just as selfish as everybody else out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Channing was married four times before ending up with Gillham, who was a cinematographer. Her previous husbands were Walter Channing Jr., Paul Schmidt, David Debin and David Rawle. <\/p>\n<p>She and Gillham never married, something she attributed to her previous relationships. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat have I learned from my divorces? I know that nobody gets married to get divorced. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll get married another time,\u201d Channing said in an essay for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2006\/apr\/09\/features.woman8\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"The Guardian\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a7c7327e4b07b8d6225e3e7\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2006\/apr\/09\/features.woman8\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Guardian<\/a> in 2006. \u201cI\u2019ve been living with my partner [cinematographer Daniel Gillham] for over 20 years, so&#8230; It would feel quite silly, actually.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cGrease\u201d star Stockard Channing is opening up about her life as a \u201crecluse\u201d in London. 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