The actress Morgan Fairchild is speaking out to reveal why she refused to sell her soul for Hollywood fame.
Fairchild Sounds Off
Fairchild, 76, rose to fame portraying a glamorous vixen on Falcon Crest in the 1980s. Despite this, Fairchild told Fox News that she never wanted “to sell my soul” just to get ahead.
“When I first moved to L.A., everyone told me, ‘If you don’t go to the right parties, if you don’t sleep with the right people, and if you don’t do what everybody does, you’re never going to get anywhere,’” Fairchild recalled. “Well, I don’t even drink, much less do drugs. I just never did. When they told me that’s what it takes to make it here, I thought, ‘Then I guess I just won’t have a career.’”
“I know there are jobs I lost because I wouldn’t sleep with people,” she continued. “I know that, and I accept that I wasn’t willing to accept that, I just wasn’t willing to sleep with them.”
Fairchild Creates Her ‘Own Reality…’
Fairchild got her start in Hollywood with an uncredited role in the classic 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde. That beloved movie starred Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.
“I went to a cast party, and I realized everybody was a little strange,” Fairchild said. “The next day, I was walking with one of my mentors, and he said, ‘You seem a little down.’ I told him, ‘I really like working on this movie, but I’m realizing it’s a strange world. I walked out on this party, but that’s the reality of the business, and I can’t just keep walking out on reality.’”
“He gave me the best piece of advice I ever got,” she added. “He said, ‘Nonsense, you can always walk out on reality.’ So that’s how I approached Hollywood.”
“I create my own reality. I live my own life the way I want to,” Fairchild explained. “Those are the choices, as long as you can accept the downside, which is that if you don’t do these things people tell you that you have to do, you may not work. As long as you’re willing to accept that, then you’re fine.”
Fairchild Has No Regrets
Fairchild went on to say that she has never regretted doing things her way when it comes to her acting career.
“I never had to look back on anything,” she said. “I made my decision early on that I was not going to sell my soul or my pride or my dignity to succeed in this business, I might’ve done a little better if I had, but I was willing to live with that.”
When asked how she feels about being labeled as a sex symbol, Fairchild responded by saying, “There are a lot of worse things to be called than a sex symbol.”
“But it still surprises me,” she admitted. “I wasn’t expecting it, but there are far worse things to be labeled.”
In the end, Fairchild has no regrets about how she’s handled her Hollywood career.
“I’m grateful for where my life choices have taken me,” she concluded.
Fairchild is a true living legend, and there will never be another one like her.
God bless you, Morgan Fairchild!