Gray’s Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey was solely 18 when he met 44-year-old who grew to become his spouse

Patrick Dempsey’s first marriage was to a girl who was over 20 years his senior, and the aftermath of the connection was ‘rocky’ at greatest.

You could be aware of Dempsey’s present marriage to Jillian Fink over 20 years in the past, however Rocky Parker in all probability slipped your radar.

Parker, who was 26 years older than 18-year-old Dempsey after they met, was a widowed mother-of-three, with a son who was one yr older than the younger actor.

The pair met whereas engaged on a play collectively in 1984, known as Brighton Seashore Memoirs.

In it, they performed aunt and nephew, however their emotions turned lower than familial.

The pair started courting, and she or he moved on to develop into his supervisor.

However in gentle of their scenario, the pair married in 1987 when Dempsey was 21 and saved it hush hush for 2 years as a result of controversy it could trigger, per Spock and Christine.

Nonetheless, it could all disintegrate in 1994, regardless of popping out into the general public view, as a result of Parker filed for divorce.

The pair, who reportedly went to courses on the NYU movie college collectively, formally break up on 26 April, 1994, when Parker filed for divorce, citing ‘irreconcilable variations.’

Shockingly, Parker additionally accused him of assaulting her on the set of the 1987 movie Can’t Purchase Me Love.

In accordance with The Sun, she claimed he had left her for an additional girl, however had beforehand harmed her, recalling particulars of the incident: “Whereas we have been on the set of his (1987) film Can’t Purchase Me Love, he beat me up as a result of he claimed he ‘wished to see what it was wish to beat up a girl!’ I now undergo from arthritis in my hand from the place Respondent injured me.”

She added: “The bodily abuse included Respondent breaking my finger when he rushed me to a van and closed the door on my finger.”

Nonetheless, she later took her phrases again, claiming she was ‘suggested’ to accuse her ex of assault.

She mentioned, per the outlet: “Within the warmth of a divorce, typically individuals say issues they usually wouldn’t. However the statements of bodily and psychological abuse, in addition to alcoholism and drug use, are false.”

Dempsey later addressed his first marriage in a 2006 interview with ABC‘s Barbara Walters, calling it a ‘Freudian nightmare that’s public data.’

“I believe I wanted a mom,” he mentioned. “There have been loads of damaging issues that I am nonetheless undoing from it. She had a son one yr older than me.”

Parker died in 2014 of throat most cancers on the age of 74.