The Real Reason Bruce Springsteen Divorced His First Wife

To quote The Boss himself, Bruce Springsteen still had a "Hungry Heart" while married to model and actress Julianne Phillips. In his 2016 memoir Born To Run, Springsteen wrote that he unknowingly sabotaged his first marriage due to the couple's lack of commonalities — and his love for bandmate and current wife, Patti Scialfa.

"One evening, while I sat across from my beautiful wife in an upscale Los Angeles eatery, a conversation formed silently inside my head," He wrote in his memoir (via Soap Hub). "... [A] part of me tried to convince myself that she was simply using me to further her career or to get . . . something. Nothing could've been farther from the truth."

Ultimately, Springsteen "came clean to [Phillips] as soon as [he] knew how serious [he and Scialfa] were." The singer wrote (via Showbiz 411) : "Patti was a musician, was close to my age, had seen me on the road in all of my many guises and viewed me with a knowing eye," adding, "... I never felt the need to pretend around her."According to the Daily Mail, Scialfa, also a Jersey native, met Springsteen in 1980. In 1984, Scialfa became the only female band member of the E Street Band, per Country Living. Who could compete with that? 

"Patti's been in love with Bruce for as long as I can remember," her high school art teacher, Curtis K. Smith, told People magazine in 1988. "It wasn't a big surprise around here when it finally came into the open."

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