Joanne Woodward Gained Weight & at 93 Cannot Remember ‘Love of Her Life’ Paul Newman amid Illness

• Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were Hollywood’s most known couple.

• Woodward turned 93 in 2023, but her diagnosis left her unable to remember Paul, whom she’d loved for 50 years.

• Now her family and grandchildren are with her.

Joanne Woodward is a famous Hollywood actress who appeared in films like “The Three Faces of Eve” and “Count Three and Pray.” The iconic star played a woman with multiple personality disorder in “The Three Faces of Eve,” causing her to win an Oscar.

It was her agent who introduced her to Paul Newman. In the early 1950s, Woodward and Paul built a close relationship as they worked together as understudies for the Broadway play, “Picnic.”

According to their daughter, Clea Newman Soderlund, her parents had a “rare” passion and an unusual connection for each other. Soderlund said they laughed more than any other couple she’d ever known but also respected each other.

The couple’s marriage lasted 50 years until Paul died at age 83 in 2008. One of the things that threw the couple off was the guilt the “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” actor carried for having left his family when he married Woodward.

The duo also experienced resentment, tragedy, and substance abuse. A friend of the couple confessed that the pair had rough times and “a give-and-take on both sides,” but their loving and close bond proved “unbreakable.”

The “Cool Hand Luke” actor divorced his wife, Jackie, in 1958 before marrying Woodward in Las Vegas. Besides the actress’s Oscar...