[on his support of ex-wife
Claudine Longet after she shot to death her lover,
skier
Spider Sabich, in 1976] I had to be there for her. She is the mother of
my children. And we never stopped being friends. I still accept her
story that the shooting was accidental.
Bing Crosby's wife once told me
that she was amazed that I had taken so much trouble to help Claudine
after we divorced. I said that anybody would have done the same thing,
and she said, "Bing wouldn't." I think she meant that Bing was a very
rigid guy, and once you had screwed up, you were off his list. Well,
that's not the kind of guy I am.