Heart attack? COPYRIGHT 2020 By TheLifeandTimesofHollywood.com In 1996, she auctioned off her memorabilia at Christie’s — including the wedding dress from her marriage to Sellers and the come-hither Polaroids he took on the night they met.‘I wanted to get rid of it all,’ she said. Ekland said it didn’t take long for her to notice Sellers’ strange habits.“He decided what I was going to wear,” she said. Former Bond girl Britt Ekland is opening up about her marriage to Peter Sellers in a new documentary marking the 40th anniversary of the actor’s death. “And they said no. I don’t want any more children.’ Director Bryan Forbes and Nanette Newman, his actress wife, had to talk him out of insisting Britt had an abortion.When she went into labour with Victoria in January 1965, he dumped her on the pavement outside the Welbeck Street Clinic and whizzed off to make What’s New Pussycat. Britt Ekland got candid about her marriage to British comic legend Peter Sellers in a new BBC documentary. Swedish bombshell Britt Ekland secured her place in movie history as a gun moll in Get Carter (1971), a pagan temptress in The Wicker Man (1973), and a Bond Girl in The Man With The Golden Gun (1974). ‘One minute you were flying high, the next you were running low.’Nothing came lower than his doomed efforts to turn her into his one big impossible love, Italian film star Sophia Loren.In 1967, Sellers and Britt went to Rome to make The Bobo, in which he was a singing matador and she was to be a seductress. He insisted she wear a black wig, like Loren’s. The plan was I would spend the weekend and then I would fly back. In fact, Ekland said when she re-read her diaries, she saw the repeated use of the Swedish word for “fight.” And she vividly remembered one incident that occurred in Rome after they were harassed by paparazzi.“He just went on and on,” she said. ‘Our marriage is finished!’ Sellers would cry.Britt fought back, once bashing him over the head with a picture frame. Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. She was taking a bath when a knock at the door would forever change her life.“I wrapped a towel around me and rushed to open the door,” she recalled. Sellers arranged for a professional 16mm film to be made, complete with a commentary by his friend, the actor David Lodge.Lodge was joint Best Man with Sellers’s long-time sidekick, the sycophantic actor Graham Stark, of whom John Le Mesurier had said: ‘Graham Stark is the only man in London with a flat up Peter Sellers’ bottom.’ The stills photographer was celebrity snapper Terry O’Neill.For the reception at Elstead, Sellers’ Surrey mansion, stuntmen from Shepperton Studios kept the Press away from the gates. Peter Sellers Britt Eklund during happier times, circa 1964. “He just pre-decided everything without ever asking me.”She also claimed it was Sellers’ actions that got her fired from the 1964 film “Guns at Batasi.”“He called me and said, ‘Ask the production if you can have an extra day off,’” she said. “This very tall gentleman said, ‘I’m Mr. Sellers’ valet.’ Would I like to come to his suite?”Two days after their first date, Ekland said Sellers called her and admitted he told the press they were getting married. All market data delayed 20 minutes. In the end, he called our agent and said, ‘Come and pick her up.’ I knew that this time I could never go back.”Sellers passed away 1980 at age 54 from a massive heart attack.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. “I couldn’t have said, ‘I’m sorry, I love you, but I’ve got to go back to work now.’ There was no option for that… I was fired from the film. He feared she’d allow herself to be seduced by fellow cast member John Leyton, who’d had a No 1 hit in 1961 with Johnny Remember Me.Sellers phoned Britt long- distance from Hollywood: ‘Why don’t you take the day off and come over?’ He assured her he’d clear all this with her producers, he was well connected — and he’d worked twice with Batasi’s director, John Guillermin, on the feature films Never Let Go and Waltz Of The Toreadors.This was bluster. English actor and comedian Peter Sellers proposed after seeing Britt Ekland's photograph in the paper and then meeting her in London. Snowdon shared a love of women, photography, fine wine and fast cars with Sellers; both were also prone to … ‘Sheer insanity,’ said Spike Milligan.Sellers and Britt made home movies with Lord Snowdon and Princess Margaret — and Sellers asked Snowdon if he’d like to swap wives. I’d never let him see me wandering around in curlers or a dressing gown.’The compliant, cosy, deferential scene was undermined somewhat by Sellers’s feelings of morbid jealousy — and by the couple’s instant separationFor only two days after the wedding, Sellers was expected in Hollywood to begin making Kiss Me, Stupid, with director Billy Wilder.