Lorraine Bracco, cast member on The Sopranos, guest starred in The Oprah Winfrey Show on Thursday, May 24, supposedly to promote Bracco Wines, a line of eight Italian wines in partnership with the 52-year old actress. Additionally, she candidly spoke about her infidelity on husband Harvey Keitel and her years of denial on her depression.

Bracco was first married to Daniel Guerard but after a brief period married actor Harvey Keitel, popularly known for movies like Pulp Fiction, The Piano and Reservoir Dogs, and had a daughter with him named Stella Keitel. Despite the long-term relationship, the marriage went down the drain due to Bracco’s cheating on him with actor Edward James Olmos, known for playing Admiral William Adama on Battlestar Galactica. This resulted in a five-year legal battle over the custody of their child Stella, in which she was forced to file for bankruptcy. Bracco and Olmos got married but eventually filed for divorce.


On The Oprah Show, Bracco revealed her regret over her infidelity, which caused her marriage with Keitel to fall apart. She said, "Eddie was a lovely man and, in all retrospect, Harvey is a good man... It was an immature choice… I was on that river in Egypt, called denial! And I wasn't mature enough or smart enough or willing to accept that I was unhappy in that relationship."

During her marriage with Olmos, she suffered from a deep depression while fighting Keitel for the custody of their daughter. She sought help but prolonged her clinical depression diagnosis because of fear.

"I wasn't willing to recognize it earlier; I was very against any kind of medication because I felt, 'Oh my God, I'm an actress, I need my emotions and if I take an anti-depressant, I'll never feel again, and I'm gonna be hooked on them forever…I was very, very, very wrong about the whole medication thing... I feel it's really what saved me,” she has said on the show.

Ironically, Bracco had been playing Dr. Jennifer Melfi, the psychiatrist of the mod boss Tony Soprano on the HBO long running series The Sopranos.

-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist

Source: Celebrity Spider

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