‘Penetration’: Barbra Streisand’s wild celeb confession

The powerhouse singer had a very surprising response when grilled on her rumoured hook-up with a fellow A-lister.

Barbra Streisand had a wild answer when pressed on whether she and her longtime pal Warren Beatty ever slept together during their rumoured fling in the ’70s.

The A Star Is Born actress and singer, 83, opened up about the NSFW matter during an interview with The New Yorker published recently, while discussing a similar anecdote she shared in her 2023 tell-all My Name Is Barbra.

“I know I slept in the bed with him, but I can’t remember if we actually had penetration,” she claimed, per the New York Post. “I swear to God, I can’t. There are certain things I block out.”

However, Streisand quickly moved away from the topic when the interviewer pressed her further about whether or not she ever slept with the Dick Tracy star, 88.

“But I know we’re still friends,” she said, changing the subject. “Every year on my birthday, he calls me and we have a wonderful talk about our lives, our children, and so forth.”

“So we’re still friends,” Streisand added. “I met him when I was fifteen years old, and he was twenty-one, I think.”

In My Name Is Barbra, the star recalled first meeting Beatty at the Clinton Playhouse in Connecticut when she was 16 and he was 21. She described Beatty as “tall with movie-star looks” and wrote that “women were already falling at his feet.”

Streisand was asked about her rumoured fling with Warren Beatty. Picture: Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Fortune

The pair have been friends for decades. Picture: Chris Delmas/AFP

Streisand also wrote about an interview she gave Playboy in 1977 in which the reporter asked whether she was ever “romantically linked” with the Bonnie and Clyde actor.

“I said blithely, ‘One of my flings,’” she responded, according to her memoir. “I was just tossing off a reply, playing the role of a jaded woman of the world.”

Streisand shared details of her personal life in her memoir. Picture: Kevin Kane/Getty Images for BSB

Still, while Streisand and Beatty “go back a long way,” she also admitted that there is “some water under that bridge.”

“Recently, we were on the phone talking politics and who knows what else when he said, ‘I remember why we broke up,’” Streisand wrote. “I said, ‘When were we together?’”

After hanging up the phone and asking herself if she and Beatty ever slept together, Streisand admitted that they “probably” did.

“I kind of remember. I guess I did,” she wrote. “Probably once.”

Whether they slept together or not, Streisand and Beatty have remained “friends for life” since first meeting in Connecticut almost 70 years ago.

They also each ended up with the loves of their lives, because Streisand went on to marry actor James Brolin, 84, in 1998, while Beatty married actress Annette Bening, 67, in 1992.

Brolin recently opened up about the secret to his and the Way We Were singer’s nearly 30-year marriage.

“The best investment we’ve ever made is our mattress,” he told the US Today show in April.

“And don’t misunderstand me,” Brolin added. “We’re both lazy. We love to sleep late. We do a lot of our work on the phone, on paper, reading, right next to each other.”

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission.

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