Actress Pam Grier and comedian Richard Pryor's 18-month romance ended when he took issue with her requests for him to wear a condom during sex, the actress revealed on Thursday's "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
She told the talk show host that her doctor told her that, as a cocaine-user, Pryor's sperm was harming her body because it contained traces of the drug. And he insisted she should demand protected sex.
In an interview to promote her new memoirs, "Foxy: My Life in Three Acts," the "Foxy Brown" and "L Word" star said: "There was an epidemic of a lot of people doing cocaine and it accumulated in the body, and often in the prostate gland, and it would come out during your sexual activity, and inside a woman, it could harm her.
"(My doctor) said, 'You'll have to ask your mate to wear protection ...' It would protect me from getting the drug into my body ... and so I had to tell Richard, 'You're gonna have to wear a raincoat,' and he had an issue with that.
"I said, 'It's my life ...' I chose me."
Grier also told Oprah Winfrey one of the late comedian's secrets: He couldn't read.
She said she taught Pryor to read while she was dating him because it was his dream to thumb through Leo Tolstoy's epic "War & Peace."
Grier says, "He would learn his lines phonetically and people would help him learn his lines, but he'd say, 'Baby, I wanna learn how to read, and I wanna read 'War & Peace'."
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