'I always thought it was funny, a good Christian girl could go up and bump and grind and be vulgar on stage, but God forbid you should just take off your clothes—you crossed the line.'
. Throughout their life together, the press dubbed John a Svengali, but Bo insists she’s the one responsible for the triumphs—and the missteps—in her life: She says now that she never wanted to be someone’s puppet, nor is she all that perfect—which, as it turns out, is a lot more interesting.BO DEREK: I’m in Ventura. Normally we’re [Derek and her longtime partner, the actor John Corbett] in Santa Ynez, near Santa Barbara, but we just got a little house on the harbor. It’s beautiful.
DEREK: Yeah, and it was the first time I was going to school looking to learn. My whole experience of school prior was everything was being forced upon me. So it was the first time I was enjoying learning. And a few weeks later, I got the job to make a film in Greece. So I left school.DEREK: I went in and met with John Derek. And he said that there’s this movie, and he offered it to me. And he said the only problem is you’d have to leave school and go to Greece.
DEREK: Yes, and obviously I loved him. It was incredible. We lived in Europe a lot of the almost 25 years we were together. There were wonderful people. We saw the world. It was fabulous.DEREK: Everything except for maybe surfing and sailing. [] I could teach him a few things about that. And I understand, for him, it must have been fun to show me the world. But it also turned out I’m not such a puppet, as everyone probably thought.
DEREK: Yeah, the statutory rape law and the Mann Act. My parents were … not okay, but keeping an eye on me. Concerned, but dealing with it. But this agent I had at the time thought that John Derek was giving me a big scar. I was just a beach girl with no experience in anything. He threatened to bring charges, and in California, I guess you belong to the state; you don’t even belong to your parents. It’s an old Spanish law. It doesn’t require your parents to swear out a complaint; anybody can.
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