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NextImg:Patti LuPone details ‘painful’ 7-year relationship with ‘Lothario’ Kevin Kline
Patti LuPone and Kevin Kline had a seven-year on-again, off-again relationship. Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images

Patti LuPone detailed her “painful” and tumultuous romance with ex Kevin Kline.

The outspoken Tony winner, 76, and Kline, 77, met when they were students at Juilliard in the ’70s and had an on-again, off-again relationship for seven years.

LuPone tells the New Yorker in an interview published Monday that she “took an instant dislike to” the “Sophie’s Choice” star.

The two, pictured with Norman Snow, met while students at Juilliard. Getty Images
LuPone says she took an instant dislike to Kline when they first met. Getty Images

“He looked like Pinocchio to me,” she shared. “He had skinny legs, and he was tall, and I didn’t really see the handsomeness.”

The animosity changed when the two sat back-to-back in an art appreciation class and began “feeling each other up.”

“He was a Lothario,” the “American Horror Story” alum recalled.

The Tony winner says that Kline was a “Lothario.” AFP via Getty Images
She complained that he would dump her when he wanted to date someone else. Getty Images

“It was a painful relationship,” she continued. “I was his girlfriend when he wanted me to be his girlfriend, but, if there was somebody else, he would break up with me and go out with that person.

“And I, for some reason, stuck it out—until I couldn’t stick it out anymore,” she said.

For his part, Kline described the relationship as “fraught.”

“We fought all the time,” he added. “In the company, we were known as the Strindbergs,” referencing the Swedish playwright August Strindberg, whose work often explored deep psychological themes and complex human relationships.

LuPone admits she has no idea why she stuck it out for so long. Getty Images for Disney
Kline described their relationship as “fraught.” Apple TV+ via Getty Images

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The “Life Goes On” star previously addressed Kline’s infidelity during a 2010 appearance on “The View,” explaining that Kline was “a very beautiful man” who “sort of took advantage of that while we were together.”

But there seems to be no hard feelings as she called him a “terrific man.”

LuPone went on to marry cameraman Matthew Johnston in 1988. The two share a 34-year-old son named Joshua.

LuPone married cameraman Mathew Johnston in 1988. Getty Images
Kline is married to actress Phoebe Cates. Kevin Mazur

Kline married “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” star Phoebe Cates in 1989.

They have two children, Owen, 33, and Greta, 31.

LuPone will soon be seen in the upcoming season of “And Just Like That…” in which she plays the Italian mother of Giuseppe (Sebastiano Pigazzi), the young boyfriend of Carrie’s gay pal Anthony (Mario Cantone).