Overview

• Patti LuPone described her seven-year on-and-off relationship with Kevin Kline in the 1970s as 'painful' and 'fraught,' citing frequent breakups and infidelity.
• The two met as students at Juilliard, where LuPone initially disliked Kline, describing him as looking like 'Pinocchio.'
• Despite the rocky relationship, they collaborated professionally on the 1975 Broadway musical 'The Robber Bridegroom.'
• LuPone and Kline have since moved on, marrying other people in the late 1980s, with LuPone expressing a desire for friendship in recent years.
• Kline admitted they 'fought all the time,' with peers nicknaming them 'the Strindbergs' after the playwright known for turbulent relationships.