Molly Ringwald, John Hughes Didn't Speak for "20 Years"

Us Magazine - August 12, 2009 10:04 AM PDT
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In a tribute to the late John Hughes, Molly Ringwald - who rose to fame after appearing in his 1984 teen flick Sixteen Candles - reveals she hadn't spoken to the famed 80s director "in more than 20 years."

The 41-year-old actress, who also starred Hughes' 1985 classic The Breakfast Club and 1986's Pretty in Pink, admits that she'll "always be the girl whose 16th birthday is forgotten" thanks to her breakout role in Candles. But she didn't always feel that way.

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"John saw something in me that I didn't even see in myself," she writes in Wednesday's New York Times. "Eventually, though, I felt that I needed to work with other people as well. I wanted to grow up, something I felt (rightly or wrongly) I couldn't do while working with John."

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Declining roles in Hughes' subsequent projects created friction, she says.
("Sometimes I wonder if that was what he found so unforgivable," she writes, adding that he held grudges that "were almost supernatural things.") As a result, she says she and Hughes -- who died of a heart attack on Aug. 6 -- didn't talk for "more than 20 years."

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But 15 years ago, she wrote and told him "how important he was to me."

"A week after I sent my letter, I received a bouquet of flowers as big as my apartment from John, thanking me for writing," says Ringwald, who now stars on ABC Family's The Secret Life of the American Teenager. "I was so relieved to know that I had gotten through to him, and I feel grateful now for that sense of closure."



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  • judyk
    It doesn't say they talked, just that they communicated. She wrote, he sent flowers, no other communication over the years. She contacted him 5 yrs after the "break-up", he apparently forgave, and they both forgot and went on with their lives until his passing. No math needed.
    report abuseposted August 13, 2009 12:56 PM PDT
  • judyk
    It doesn't say they talked, just that they communicated. She wrote, he sent flowers, no other communication over the years. She contacted him 5 yrs after the "break-up", he apparently forgave, and they both forgot and went on with their lives until his passing. No math needed.
    report abuseposted August 13, 2009 12:56 PM PDT
  • jessica
    um they said 20 yrs ago and 1987 was 22 yrs ago so it does mathematically work
    report abuseposted August 12, 2009 4:19 PM PDT
  • Veronica M.
    i'm confused...if they didn't speak for 20 years...and they made up 15 years ago....that doesn't make sense. lets say her last movie with him was in 1986 and they stoped talking in 1987....it doesn't add up (mathematically speaking).
    report abuseposted August 12, 2009 1:12 PM PDT
  • Tex Mex
    Molly was the 80's icon.....she rocks....God Bless her twins
    report abuseposted August 12, 2009 10:49 AM PDT
  • Kitten
    As important as John Hughes was to Molly Ringwald's career, I don't understand why people are shocked to hear that she hadn't spoken to him in 20 years. Time flies by and people lose touch. How many people from 20 years ago are you still in touch with?
    report abuseposted August 12, 2009 10:47 AM PDT
  • AlyssaT
    awww....
    report abuseposted August 12, 2009 10:46 AM PDT

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