Dustin Hoffman feared he'd die 'any second' after being held at gunpoint over affair
Dustin Hoffman feared he'd die 'any second' after being held at gunpoint over affair
Samantha MastersWed, November 11, 2026 at 2:44 PM UTC
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Dustin Hoffman opened up about an affair in his youth -Credit:Reach Publishing Services Limited (Reach Publishing Services Limited)
Dustin Hoffman has revealed he feared his life was in danger after being confronted by the husband of a woman he was having an affair with. The 89-year-old has walked down the aisle twice: firstly to Anna Byrne, with whom he shares two children, and subsequently to Lisa Gottsegan, with whom he has four children.
During a recent appearance on the podcast Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, the actor discussed a relationship he had before committing to marriage.
"In my youth I was having an affair with a married woman. And she thought that once her husband went to sleep, he stayed asleep. And I was invited to come over after he went to sleep," he explained.
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"And there we are having a festival of sorts and he walked in with a gun. And he pointed at me. And he said, 'Get out, get out'.
"When you have a gun pointed at you, first of all, that hole is much bigger than the actual hole," he recalled.
"And you realise how, any second, he's going to pull that trigger. And you think and you realise, I'm gonna die the next second. You will do anything to avoid getting killed."
Dustin and Lisa Hoffman have been married since 1980
When questioned about whether he and the woman in question "continued the festival" once her husband had settled down, he responded: "No."
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Dustin has been wed to his second wife, Lisa, since 1980. According to various reports, the actor once said of having a good marriage: "To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared s***less of his wife."
Speaking about their marriage in 2016, Lisa revealed they were "more in love" than when they got married.
"We've been married 36 years and together 40 years," she told The Daily Telegraph at the time.
"I say in Hollywood it is like dog years so you have to multiply that by seven. Maybe we are more in love [than when we got married]... it continues to grow."
Lisa explained that the actor's mother was friends with her grandmother, which led to their initial introduction, despite their 17-year age gap.
SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA - MAY 07: Dustin Hoffman, Tovah Feldshuh, Havana Rose Liu and Leo Woodall seen at Black Bear Pictures "Tuner" Los Angeles Special Screening on May 07, 2026 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Black Bear Pictures via Getty Images)
When they reconnected at Lisa's grandfather's funeral, she remembered feeling an immediate spark.
"My grandfather had recently passed away and Dustin came to pay his condolences," she said in 2007.
"That first look and I knew... Dustin asked how many children I wanted. I said six, and he said he had two already, so would four be okay. And that's exactly the way it has played out."
Discussing how she balanced raising their children with Dustin's demanding career, she told People Magazine: "One of the challenges that actors have is that they travel often for their jobs.
"Dustin and I made the decision immediately that we would stick together and no matter how challenging it was for our children or for us, we went everywhere with him, the whole group of us. We went with him to make his movies, from Morocco to Cincinnati, and I think it helped being together," she added.
Source: “AOL Entertainment”
