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“Happy Days” star Anson Williams recently opened up about finding true love while in his 70s. The 74-year-old actor married writer and real estate broker Sharon Scott, 65, in May 2023 at their home in Ojai, California. During an interview with Fox News, Williams recalled how he and Sharon first met while they were both married, lost touch, and reconnected over a decade later. “It’s a very interesting story,” Williams said. “I bought my Ojai house, almost 14 years ago, and at the time, Sharon was in real estate, and she sold it to me and to my wife at the time.” He continued, “And, years later, I mean, years later, when I was divorced and went through all that, and I ended up with the Ojai house.”<\/p>\n

Williams filed for divorce from his second wife, Jackie Gerken, in September 2019 before requesting dismissal of the divorce the following month. Willioms filed for divorce from Gerken again nin June 2020. They were married for 32 years and share daughters Olivia and Gabriella, both 20, and Stella, 15. After his divorce and a battle with colon cancer, Williams said that he found himself in a low place, thinking of the woman he met years earlier. “She never left my mind,” Williams said of Sharon. “Always kind of there. And I was up here all alone and just, you know, not in a great \u2014 not a great place. And I just called one day.” He continued, “I didn’t know her situation, but it turned out her husband had passed and all this went on. And so I asked her to lunch, and we’ve been together since that lunch. But here’s what’s funny,” Williams continued. “We’re having lunch and it’s been years. And she’s sitting down at a table. I sit down and we have a three-hour lunch. And I mean, just an amazing three hours crying and just such, such a connected experience. And finally we say, you know, \u2018We got to go. We got to \u2014 you know \u2014 and she goes, \u2019Yeah, yeah. Can you please hand me my crutches?’ I go, \u2018Excuse me?’ It turned out that she had taken a fall, a bad fall down the stairs, was in the hospital for a month, had all this corrective surgery on her knee and was one day out of the wheelchair,” he recalled. “So I help her out. And she had this challenge of going to a writer’s retreat in Italy in not that much time, like maybe six weeks. And so the challenge was getting her to walk well enough to be able to walk on the cobblestones of Italy and get to that retreat. And we did it,” he said. “So the whole beginning of our relationship was giving and caring and, it’s just progressed from there into such a \u2014\u00a0just a monumental relationship and now a creative partner.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Happy Days” star Anson Williams recently opened up about finding true love while in his 70s. The 74-year-old actor married writer and real estate broker Sharon Scott, 65, in May 2023 at their home in Ojai, California. 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