Trigger warning: The following article contains references to sexual assault and abortion.
Collins was just a child when she became an evacuee.
She toldHello!in 2020, “I was evacuated constantly.
We were all over the place.”
It was very convivial people would have accordions and they’d sing."
I had a great childhood, other than the war."
I was typecast as the smoldering British bad girl, I played baby prostitutes, I played juvenile delinquents.
I have been typecast for most of my life."
In her 2022 interview with The New York Times, Collins gave her perspective.
“I’m not a bad girl.
I was a very innocent girl.
The actor met 31-year-old Maxwell Reed, an Irish actor, when she was just 17.
“It wasn’t my fault but I didn’t know, I went out with him.
And maybe I shouldn’t have gone out with him.
He was much older than me, and he was a famous star,” Collins said.
The marriage lasted from 1952 to 1956.
While she had regrets about the marriage, Collins later said, “But what the hell.
I got rid of him,” toThe Timesin 2023.
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Sexual misconduct came with the territory.
She just looked at me and said, ‘Well, these studio bosses are different, honey.
If they don’t get what they want, they’ll drop your contract without a second thought.’
It was unavoidable.”
“I didn’t really want to go to Hollywood, I still wanted to be in the theater.
I said, ‘No, I want $2,500 a week.'”
“It would have been the death of my career.
The couple had two children together, daughter Tara Newley and son Alexander Newley.
Their marriage was over by 1971 and Newley died many years later from cancer.
She was in a coma for a very long time.”
“They all got money out of me, actually,” she said.
It wasn’t anything I ever aspired to.
I just wanted to be [a] jobbing actress."
Nevertheless, Collins was thrilled and shared the day with her husband Percy Gibson and daughter Tara Newley.
This is what astounds me.
What kind of money do you think I have?"
