Linda Hamilton Talks Marriage To James Cameron!

Terminator star Linda Hamilton hasn’t been seen in quite some time, but now that her ex husband’s film, Avatar, is nominated for 11 Oscars, she’s decided to dish on her life with James Cameron.

And we’ve never heard anyone so bitter! Or two people so insane!

Here are some HIGHlights:

On the women he wants:
“The woman he can’t get is always his dream girl. Work and women go hand in hand for Jimbo, and I should know.”

On leaving Hamilton for actress Suzy Amis:
“It’s interesting because while he was making Titanic, Suzy at that time was the gargoyle on the end of my bed, waiting to swoop in. Now I’m the gargoyle on her bed because for Jim, the one who doesn’t end up with him is always the one he wants. I’m the one who got away, and she has to live with that.”

On her most difficult times:
“Titanic was the most painful thing in the world. But this wasn’t because Jim was cheating on me. Jim went off with Suzy because we were taking a break from each other and he was free to go with her. It was a painful time because we’d had a relationship where I’d push him away, then he’d push me away. Frankly, most of our relationship was us taking a big break. It was a crazy time, too, because we clashed as I was prepared to stand up to him. I’d say: ‘I’m never going to consider going back with you, plus I’m going to tell my friends all about you.”

On changing her mind:
“Then when he got together with Suzy I changed my mind and he came back to me and we got married. Then he felt terrible about what he’d done to her and went back to her. Yes, there was a period when he did sort of cross over because he was confused.”

On being the loser:
“One does want to win, of course, but I’ve known for many years that this was the very best way to work it. I’m the one that got away and she has to live with that and share him with me. But she doesn’t have the option of not having me in her life, so we all have to manage.”

On their time together:
“It had been a fraught relationship because we were both pretty strong personalities. I loved him unconditionally, though, because he’s a brilliant and talented man. I had no problem understanding Jim’s mind. We were two of a kind. It was the intellect and humour which got us going – we were zinging off each other’s brain power all the time. He loved my quickness and toughness. But that doesn’t make a marriage, so we related to each other in some very theoretical way. But in terms of living a life together, no way.”

On Cameron controlling their home:
“I am a designer, I love the home, but Jim wouldn’t let me have any freedom to do anything. He would come home with things he’d insist on having. Then he banned a close male friend of mine from staying. But in those days Jimbo would even put his own family up in a hotel – that’s just Jim. I threw all his things out of the door more times than I can remember. He never threw things back at me, but he would storm off and, even worse, have his assistant collect his things for him and move them out. Ouch! That hurt. Then he’d move back and it’d all happen again. I’ve lost count of how many times his gymnasium was moved in and out of our house. It got to the stage where I said: “Let me at least keep your gym because this is really getting expensive.”

On having kids:
“There was just more for us to war about. We had very different parenting styles. Actually, he’s a fabulous dad, he’s extremely hands-on, as you might imagine, but this might be considered to be a little smothering and you’d have to be a strong child to cope with that. Our daughter has grown so incredibly strong. That said, she adores him like a daughter loves her daddy and there’s not one complaint. But in those days Jim would go away for three years to do a movie then come back and treat her like a one-year-old and think she was going to be stolen in the playground. Meanwhile, Josephine and I had our rules and knew how things worked. He argued over that, of course. He used to say to me: ‘Anybody can be a father or a husband. There are only five people in the world who can do what I do, and I’m going for that.'”