shatner talks about rift with nimoy in new book

[archersangel]

Shatner opens up about the end of his years long friendship with his “Star Trek” co-star Leonard Nimoy in his new memoir, “Live Long and… What I Learned Along the Way”.

“After all the years we had spent together, after the bond we had forged, what could I have done that was so irreparable that he couldn’t even talk to me about it?” The 87 year-old actor said.

Shatner even stayed away from Nimoy’s funeral in 2015 claiming he felt unwanted.

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poster's note: i've read in a few places that shatner wanted nimoy to appear in some movie he directed. nimoy said no & shatner used some footage of him from somewhere a put it in the movie without permission or payment.

Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

Well, if that's true, that would do it!

[labingi]

Thanks for posting this. I wish there had been more to the ET article. This hits me particularly hard because of my background with having a dear friend completely, permanently cut me off. I can't imagine how much worse it must be if that friend is your best friend of decades. I suspect Shatner as a person probably takes such things, pound for pound, less hard than I do (because I take them about as hard as anyone I've ever met), but I can well imagine this will be a deep hurt he will carry to his grave.

I wonder if Nimoy, who seemed a reasonable guy, quite fully registered how close he was to dying when he made the decision not to reach out and work through it. Or maybe the initial injury happened so close to his death that he didn't have time to grieve it and move forward.

As to the possibility it's based on using that footage, yeah, I could see how that would be very injuring. Not worth throwing away a decades' long friendship over, in my view, but I don't what emotional dimensions might have been behind the act itself (assuming that was what caused it). Life is hard, death is hard, grief is hard.