Being married to Martin Scorsese proved to be a career boon for the then-25-year-old Isabella Rossellini, who began to book higher profile modeling gigs, including one as a Vogue cover girl — something Rossellini has said Scorsese took umbrage with (via The Guardian).
Sadly, in 1982 when Rossellini's mother's health was failing, it drove a wedge between the couple. "Mother was dying of cancer in London..." Rossellini told the Sun Sentinel. "It's strange that sometimes sorrow brings people together and sometimes it doesn't. You become closer if you're solid, strong and capable. But if you're not — and I was not — it can separate you. I panicked and decided it would be better not to be married."
At the time, Rossellini didn't carry any resentments toward Scorsese, saying, "Marty and I had a wonderful marriage ... If I had been older, wiser and calmer, we might still be together." However, there is one comment following their divorce that Scorsese probably shouldn't have made. "Some time ago I saw Martin and he told me that, when we met, it was very important for him to think that he was in a relationship with Roberto Rossellini's daughter," Rossellini once recalled (via Vanity Fair).
Rossellini later went on to date director David Lynch, and yes, the actor is aware she has a type. "Martin and David are alike ... The men in my life are visionaries, a bit like my father," she said. "I feel extremely inspired by them, over-awed by their presence."
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