“I think it was hard for him to take anything other than his work too seriously at that moment,” Beller says. “If Carolyn met Jackie, I think he knew that that would sort of become a life of its own. ...
, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday, or subscribe here.The relationship had its ups and downs before the couple married in a secret wedding in 1996. “The on, off-ness of th...
" Beller notes, however, that Bessette-Kennedy’s wish to have met Jackie may have had something to do with her own family. Her parents, William and Anne Marie Bessette, divorced when she was young...
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