‘Dynasty’ star Joan Collins addresses 32-year age gap with 5th husband: It’s ‘just a number’

For Joan Collins, the fifth time’s the charm.

The "Dynasty" star married husband no. 5 – producer Percy Gibson – in 2002. And after kissing plenty of frogs, Collins believes she has finally found her prince.

"First of all, we were great pals before we got married," the actress explained to Fox News Digital. "We worked together on a play… We enjoyed each other’s company. We hung out together. And we saw each other the following year. We wrote love letters – it was a gradual thing. And we realized that we were very much on the same wavelength."

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"He is a really nice, kind, grounded person," the 90-year-old shared. "Many of the people that I’ve been with – and I’m not going to specify which ones – have been either neurotic, slightly unbalanced, or gotten into different things."

Collins recently shared her love story with Gibson, 58, in a new memoir, "Behind the Shoulder Pads: Tales I Tell My Friends." It details her decades-long career in Hollywood.

Critics have previously pointed out the couple’s 32-year age gap. But for Collins, it’s "just a number." She noted that it’s "never too late" to find love at any stage in life.

"That’s how we both feel," she explained. "And we were friends first, above anything else."

She noted that they both share the same drive, which has been part of the secret behind their lasting union.

"I was born with a tremendous enthusiasm for life," she said. "My mother used to say that I never kept still when I was a child. I used to do five different things at once. I would be doing a crossword puzzle, making a doll’s house, reading, painting, trying to become a detective – all at once!"

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"Life is a gift," she stressed. "That’s why they call it the present – it’s a gift. And so many people waste it. It’s so sad. It’s a gift, and it does not last for a long time."

In the book, Collins wrote that Gibson wasn’t concerned about the age difference because "I have great vitality and enthusiasm for life and all it has to offer."

"Percy often admits that I can wear him out!" she wrote.

Today, Collins has no regrets – even after she and her former fiancé Warren Beatty called it quits. Collins and Beatty began dating in 1959 and were engaged a year later before splitting.

"We were both too young, too selfish, too ambitious," Collins reflected. "It just wasn’t right. I mean, I’ve had a lot of relationships. I had a lot of marriages. They don’t last. Luckily, you get older, and I met the man who’s the right person for me for the rest of my life. We’ve been together ever since. And we’re very, very happily married."

"Breakups happen," Collins shrugged. "It can happen based on different things."

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In the book, Collins claimed that when she told Beatty she was pregnant, her then-beau told her she needed to get an abortion to protect their Hollywood careers. Even though they were already engaged, Collins said she wasn’t a fan of shotgun weddings.

"He was only 23, a struggling wannabe actor with a potentially great career as a sex symbol ahead of him if the future movies he was angling for came to fruition," Collins wrote.

Collins said she did get an abortion – and there are no hard feelings against Beatty, 86. Collins admitted she wasn’t ready for motherhood either.

"He was absolutely right," she told Fox News Digital.

A spokesperson for Beatty didn’t immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Collins went on to have two children with her second husband, actor/singer/songwriter Anthony Newley, and another child with her third husband, businessman Ron Kass.

"Motherhood has been wonderful," said Collins. "I’m very close to my children. We talk all the time. I wouldn’t have it any other way."

GREG GUTFELD: Trump derangement syndrome evolved into a disease

By now you've heard the phrase Trump derangement syndrome, but maybe it's time you graduated from syndrome to disease, because while a syndrome refers to symptoms, a disease refers to an established condition, and Trump derangement is just that. It's a disease much like alcoholism, where what defines it is an incapability to process booze, and that delicious MAGA-martini is Trump. No pill can stop it. No therapy dog or therapy llama can alleviate it. Those who have it are already paranoid, but they're also loons with annoying wives who are most susceptible. 

The most recent victim: Joe Scarborough, who was left emotionally Scarborough'd by the 2016 election. Joe wasn't always like this. He used to look like a normal person, but now he has the same eyes as the kid playing the banjo in "Deliverance." It's amazing, could be the same person, same age, really. And as you'll see, eventually your mental functions totally deteriorate to a point where even "The View" is over your head. So, as a public service, here's what a Trump-aholic sounds like.

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JOE SCARBOROUGH: He's not a normal candidate. He is running to end American democracy as we know it... He will imprison, he will execute whoever he's allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country. Just look at his past. It's not really hard to read.

I just keep wondering what she's thinking while he's doing that. Sorry, Beavis. We are looking at Trump's path, and it's pretty easy given he's the most investigated, transparent political leader in history. And I said transparent, not translucent like Biden's see-through skin. And so far, there's no imprisonings, executions, no ending a democracy in sight. But it's clear how the ugliness of addiction could sap your memory and reasoning ability. 

As you heard, Joe believes that if Trump becomes president, he's going to execute those who don't agree with him, but when Trump was president, he executed exactly no one. Well, except for Soleimani, and that guy didn't have to watch "Morning Joe" to wake up to a bomb. Joe also claims it's Trump's mission to replace American democracy with a dictatorship. Now, as the commander-in-chief, Trump controlled all of America's armed forces, even the nukes. Yet hostile nations like Russia, North Korea and Canada are still standing. Also, actual dictators usually die in office, or are assassinated, or take a helicopter full of money to Europe. Instead, Trump gave up power to a senile guy who sniffs little girls. And then Donald happily went back to his golf game, and now he just does stand-up.

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DONALD TRUMP: He's not into golden showers, as they say... I don't like that idea... Adam "Shifty" Schiff with a neck like a pencil, he's got. I said, how does he hold up that fat, ugly face with a neck... Pencil neck.

TRUMP: Did anybody ever hear of Alphonse Capone? He was so mean, if you looked at him in the wrong way, he'd blow you away... He was only indicted once, I got indicted four times in a matter of seconds.

You know, he sounds less like a dictator and more like Don Rickles. But you see how bad it is. You hallucinate, you start seeing all sorts of stuff that just never occurred. They should change the name from "Morning Joe" to "Morning Sickness." What do you say? But sadly, it's now running rampant at MSNBC.

SEN. CLAIRE MCCASKILL: A lot of people have tried to draw similarities between Mussolini and Hitler and the use of the terminology like vermin... The difference though, I think, makes Donald Trump even more dangerous, and that is, he has no philosophy he believes in... All he wants is to look in the mirror and see a guy who's president... All he cares about is selfish self-promotion.

I'm beginning to think there's something in the water over at MSNBC besides antidepressants. They got Trump on the brain and almost nothing else, apparently, including history. When you say Trump is worse than Hitler, what you're saying is what Hitler did, killing 6 million Jews among others, wasn't nearly as bad as mean tweets and jokes about Rosie O'Donnell. No wonder you see young leftists brandishing swastikas in protest.

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Apparently, Hitler is just some guy who did stuff. This is next-level antisemitism, Claire. Meanwhile, back on Earth, normal Americans are concerned with what we all know is common reality. Here in the U.S., 70% of Americans are worried about the economy, which they see getting worse. On crime, according to a recent Gallup poll, 40% of Americans are afraid to walk home alone at night, although some are used to the loneliness… Over a third are afraid to drive in areas of their communities. 

These are not hallucinations. These are the real experiences of the American people. So it's no wonder Americans have bought more guns than you'll see in Judge Jeanine's rec room. Fifty-two percent of voters say they or someone in their household owns a firearm. Just a decade ago, 42% said they owned a gun. Kat, that's 10 points. Fear of crime is at its highest point since 1993. Why is that? Well, it demonstrates another reality the addicts can't see: That what they accused Trump of is in fact going on right now in the current administration. Like most addicts, they live in denial and will lie to your face about what you and I can clearly see with our own two eyes, and in San Francisco — smell with both nostrils. 

For instance, it wasn't dictator Trump who weaponized the Department of Justice with a conga line of special prosecutors, wasn't Trump who sic'd the FBI on parents, wasn't Trump who raided an innocent anti-abortion protester's home with guns drawn, wasn't Trump that prosecuted Trump for having documents he was allowed to have? Although that trial would be hilarious. Wasn't Trump who used DOJ to get Twitter and other social media to do its bidding on COVID. It wasn't Trump who set up a select committee that buried important videos to fashion a pre-ordained verdict regarding Jan. 6.

See, what "Morning Joe" did is what shrinks call projecting, or as most of us call it, **** ****. Thank you. And for those of you who are nonbinary: bull-she-it. That way they can't bleep it. See, they can't bleep it if I say bull-she-it. Yeah, but to the Trump addicts on the left, little things like the well-being of the American people don't register. It means about as much to them as personal hygiene means to somebody holed up in a crack house. According to The New York Times, the Democratic Party that tried to quit Donald Trump for three years has fallen off the wagon. 

Now they're looking to put Trump front-and-center at every opportunity. Of course, they wouldn't do that if they actually feared he'd execute him or them, but now they long for the days when cable networks carried Trump's rallies live. And why? Well, they need something to deflect us from what they've done to the country. Without Trump around, then all you got filling the airwaves is this…

Is it any wonder America's Dems have decided the best way to win next year is to lean into their addiction to all things orange. They know this country is not going to vote for the guy in the basement again. Hell, he might not even survive the stairs down to the basement. So they want their obsession to become your obsession. Forget the economy, forget crime, forget nuclear war — focus on Trump, which may not be a bad idea. The way the polls are looking, they may not have a choice. 

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