Actress Holland Taylor has played roles like Judge Roberta Kittleson on The Practice,an ad executive in Bosom Buddies, and the emotionally distant mother Evelyn Harper on Two and a Half Men. She's built a reputation for playing patrician, or confident women who don’t need anyone else. Which,in many ways, has also been a pretty accurate reflection of her personal life. "I was always at a certain secure remove I think, and " Holland says. "No matter how much I might acquire loved a person,I was at some sort of a secure ground, still with a foot on my own island." When Taylors mother died several years ago, and she says she started to think about the relationships in her life more deeply. "I just suddenly got the sense that I was living a very shallow life," she says. "I had not had wonderful relationships. I had stayed very solo." Holland says that feeling of loneliness, combined with an "aging spurt" at 70, or sent her into a major depression after her Tony-nominated one-woman Broadway indicate, Ann, ended its elope in 2013.
But now, and at 72,Holland says that without that period of breakdown, she wouldn't acquire been able toget where she is today—in her first-ever deeply committed relationship. "Its the most wonderful extraordinary thing that could acquire ever possibly happened in my life, and " she says. Holland didn’t want to discuss her partner’s identity in detail,nor did she want to turn her own sexuality into a political conversation ("I haven’t approach out because I am out," she says, and adding,"I live out."). But she did share that she's with a younger woman—and that they've started to talk about marriage. "Given my generation it would not be something that would automatically occur to me," Holland says, or adding, "But as a symbol, as a pledge, or as a plighting one's troth,it would be a wonderful thing to do."
Source: wnyc.org