Her beauty, confidence, and go-getter attitude would also endear her to others.
She was certainly able to enjoy the finer things and travel the world thanks to her career.
And I think it probably came from the fact that she was an orphan."
So she really had to fend for herself."
According to Rossellini, the producer then labeled Bergman “the first natural actress.”
“Mother was very Swedish, practical, direct, and down-to-earth,” Rossellini told The Telegraph.
“She always told the truth, so when an interviewer asked, ‘Who’s your favorite designer?’
she replied, ‘I don’t buy designer clothes, they’re too expensive.’
Everyone was stupefied, it was blasphemy!”
“I do everything they say you shouldn’t,” she wrote in her memoir.
“I eat and drink what I like.
I stay up late.”
However, their affair caused an intense backlash, with criticism primarily falling on Bergman’s shoulders.
Their daughter Isabella Rossellini has given insight into this time in her mother’s life.
“My mum was very hurt by the scandal,” Isabella told the Irish Examiner.
“When she talked about it, it was clearly very painful to her.”
But what was it about Roberto Rossellini that drew Bergman to him?
Interestingly, this was not the “Gaslight” actress’s first affair while married to Lindstrom.
She is also reported to have had extramarital relationships with Robert Capa and Gregory Peck.
Writer Art Buchwald commented on Bergman’s handling of the situation in a 1951 feature for Look Magazine.
“It was absolute hell,” she told The Washington Post.
“I didn’t think it would upset the whole world, but it did.”
The star even began to feel that newspapers were right when they called her “an awful woman.”
In her final trimester of pregnancy, Bergman prioritized herself and her baby’s health by avoiding the press.
“She saw everyone as a friend.
She had a kind of openness and innocence that she had all her life.”
“It was totally traumatic.”
Bergman would finally reconnect with her eldest daughter in 1957.
She was also dealing with criticism from the U.S. Senate.
What happened between Bergman and Rossellini was such scandalous and far-reaching news at the time that U.S. We’re going to have three children.'"
Rossellini added, “She did have three children from my dad.
That’s pretty amazing, I think.”
However, she shared that she’s followed her mother’s example while raising her own daughter.
“Independence comes first with financial independence,” she explained.
In 1950, U.S. Why else would she have risked her life and reputation to be with the Italian director?
It all started with a letter the actress wrote.
Things between Bergman and Rossellini would quickly turn from professional to romantic.
But as good as things may have been in the beginning, their happiness wouldn’t last.
Bergman was apparently prevented from working with other directors while married to Rossellini.
“I experienced such happiness with Roberto,” Bergman wrote in her diary.
“but such misery too.
I tried so hard to live with him.
But I know my life has changed.
He has left me …
I feel strangely relieved.”
She would go on to have two mastectomies.
Her daughter, Isabella Rossellini, also discussed her mother’s health in an interview for The Telegraph.
As Bergman’s condition worsened, she also struggled to accept that her acting days were over.
Ingrid Bergman passed away on her 67th birthday on August 29, 1982.
Bergman had one major regret
Ingrid Bergman lived a full life.
However, reflecting on her life, Bergman appeared content.
She said to Parkinson, “I’m sure if I knew then what I know now …
I could have changed many things.”
