Faye Dunaway Reveals Bipolar Disorder, Alcoholism, and Being ‘difficult’ in Bombshell Documentary

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July 12, 2024 – The Hollywood legend was filming a restaurant scene for the 1974 movie “Chinatown,” opposite Jack Nicholson, but production kept being halted by a stubborn follicle. “It was a very tense moment,” Dunaway, 83, says in the new documentary “Faye.” So, hotshot director Roman Polanski brusquely intervened. “Roman literally walks around and pulls the hair out of Faye’s head.” “I’ve been around a long time — even then I’d been around a long time — and I’ve never heard some of those words.”

But there were far bigger problems roiling deep down than a diva getting heated with her director.

Dunaway, the “Network” and “Bonnie and Clyde” star who’s long had a reputation in Tinseltown for being “difficult,” candidly reveals in the film, which starts streaming Saturday on Max, that her more egregious behavior over the years was due to suffering from bipolar disorder, manic depression and alcoholism.

“I had periods where I was very depressed, and I was very moody and I actually have, we might as well say, a bipolar diagnosis,” Dunaway says. “You can be up high, you can be manic, you can be very depressed.”

The actress added that Polanski’s pluck was “enough to set off the manic depression. It was offensive. You don’t do that.”