After breaking up with Sondra Locke, Clint Eastwood met Frances Fisher while filming the 1989 film “Pink Cadillac.” Their relationship was seemingly casual at first, but it turned serious by the early ’90s. In 1993, they welcomed a daughter, Francesca. Fisher thought Eastwood had finally become the perfect family man. “He cooked breakfast, lunch and dinner for me. I’d be nursing the baby, and he’d be feeding me,” she told Richard Schickel in “Clint Eastwood: A Biography.”
It didn’t last. In 1995, they split. But Fisher held no ill feelings toward her ex. “I’m not bitter, I’m not jaded … We always do things for a reason,” she told the Los Angeles Times. She concedes she was also at fault for failing to see the relationship for what it had become. “If you can’t get past the honeymoon stage and get into the deeper meanings of why you’re together … you’re doomed to just stop when things start getting tough,” she said.
Fisher continued to have a positive relationship with Eastwood. “I believe when you have loved someone, if you don’t destroy it with pettiness, then the love is always there,” she told SFGate in 2004. They even became friends, with Fisher joining Eastwood and his now ex-wife Dina Ruiz on family vacations with their respective daughters. “I’ll call their house and say, ‘Hi, Clint. Is Dina there?’ She and I are the ones who plan everything anyway,” she detailed.
