In her new memoir, Smith praises her co-star’s “honesty about her sexuality.”In her new memoir, Smith praises her co-star’s “honesty about her sexuality.”
This angel was pretty unholy.
“Charlie’s Angels” star Jaclyn Smith revealed her castmate Tanya Roberts once propositioned her for a threesome with her and her husband.
Speaking about her time on “Charlie’s Angels” in her newly released “I Once Knew a Guy Named Charlie” memoir, Smith recalled Tanya’s open marriage with her husband, Barry Roberts.
Tanya “wasn’t shy about it in the least, or about propositioning people to ‘swing’ with them,” Smith wrote before diving into her own experience.
The “Bourne Identity” star recalled that, during a flight to Hawaii, Tanya asked her to join her and Barry for a threesome.
Despite declining, she found Tanya’s “honesty about her sexuality” to be “brave and self-aware,” Smith wrote.
Smith, now 80, and Tanya developed a strong friendship after the latter joined “Charlie’s Angels” as Julie Roger in the final season.
The show, which ran for five seasons from 1976 to 1981, followed three female police academy graduates who leave boring desk jobs to work as private investigators for an unseen millionaire named Charlie Townsend.
Smith — who played Kelly Garrett and was the only cast member to star in the show for all five seasons — originally played opposite Farrah Fawcett and Kate Jackson before the trio became household names overnight.
Despite their newfound fame, Jackson left the secret-detective series in 1979 and was replaced by actress Shelley Hack, who was also eventually replaced by Tanya. Fawcett, meanwhile, was replaced by Cheryl Ladd after just one season as Jill Munroe.
Tanya ultimately died in January 2021 at the age of 65. Her partner revealed to The Post that she died from a blood infection that stemmed from an initial urinary tract infection and Hepatitis C.
At the time, Smith posted a tribute to her co-star on social media, praising her for the “joy” she brought “to so many people” in her “Charlie’s Angels” role.
In her memoir, Smith also revealed rampant drug use on the set of the iconic series, writing, “The more drug use I saw, the more time I spent in my motor home. I was in there a lot by the end of the series.”
Smith clarified, however, that she’s “never” used cocaine and “never will,” as “I’ve watched that drug, in particular, turn people into the worst version of themselves.”
Despite the ups and downs, she writes that her bond with her original co-stars Fawcett — who died in 2009 — and Jackson remained tight.
“After the applause, the friendship is still there,” she writes. “That sisterhood was strong.”
