James Bond legend Sir Roger Moore reveals he was a victim of domestic abuse

Though the 84-year-old star is happily married to his fourth wife Kristina Tholstrup, his private life hasn’t always been bliss. While on Piers Morgan’s show Life Stories on ITV he revealed the details of his tormentful past marriages.

"Doorn would scratch me," said Moore. "She threw a pot of tea at me. I’d been sunbathing in the garden, I came up and I’d taken off my pants and I gave her some smart Alec answer and this teapot came hurtling at me. I said, ‘Right, that’s it, I’m leaving’”.  

Moore went into further detail about the row: "She storms off out of the room and I hear the bath running. I thought, ‘What a cow, I’m leaving her and she’s having a bath’”, he said. “So I smashed the bathroom door open and she had all my clothes in the bath and said, ‘Now leave me’. I waited for them to dry. The marriage was doomed.”

Moore eventually got remarried to Dorothy Squires, but Squires got agitated by Moore’s guitar playing. “I remember, to avoid confrontation, I used to strum the guitar and one day I was sitting on the edge of the table strumming and she was ranting on about something and I wasn’t taking any notice,”

Moore explained on the show. “Next thing I know, it was like slow motion, I could feel the guitar coming out of my hands and I could see it up above my head and… bash, it came down. She ruined the guitar. She had a great temper.” 

The Bond actor’s latest relationship is so far so good. Moore said: “It’s a tranquil relationship, there are no arguments.”