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Susan Sarandon shares reason she never changed her name after divorcing Chris Sarandon in 1979


Susan Sarandon and her ex-husband Chris Sarandon divorced in 1979 and 45 years later she still carries his surname. 'He was a very kind man and he kept me alive,' she said.

She was an undergrad paying her way through college by living with her grandparents to save money and working the switchboard in the drama department where Chris was a graduate student. 'When I met Chris, I thought and correctly so, that he knew everything because he took me to black and white movies and introduced me to literature and basically saved my life actually with his kindness,' Susan said during at episode of his podcast Cooking by Hear t last year. I think it's very hard these days, when we're being assailed by so much negativity and selfishness and greed, to hold a place of love and possibility that people can find when the dust settles.'

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