Given his teen-idol reputation, it's but natural to expect someone like Leif Garrett to have had his share of high-profile relationships. Unfortunately, not all of them were completely happy ones, as he revealed to Closer Weekly in 2020.
Garrett's most notable past relationship was with future Knots Landing and Desperate Housewives star Nicollette Sheridan (pictured above). He admitted falling head-over-heels in love with the young actress soon after they met, but also told the publication that their relationship was a "very tumultuous" one. "We were both getting so much attention, and I was immature and very jealous then," he explained. "I didn't understand that you can't stop everyone from looking at your girl. She was outgoing, funny, fun, athletic — everything I wanted. When we got along, it was perfect; but when we didn't, we cleared rooms. It was that crazy — there was no in-between. The passion was insane."
Aside from Sheridan, Garrett briefly dated Tatum O'Neal, and while he declined to share much about their relationship, the singer insinuated that Tatum's rocky relationship with her father, Ryan O'Neal, "really screwed her head up." He also shared some details about the time he dated Family Ties star Justine Bateman, noting that their time together was "good until she went off the deep end" due to her own personal issues with her father.
After his music career started winding down in the early 1980s, Leif Garrett slowly returned to full-time acting.
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