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05
November 2006
Kate
Winslet's Pain Over
First
Love
The
release of the
blockbuster that made
her a household name,
Titanic, should have
been a happy time for
Kate
Winslet.
Instead, she was
mourning the loss of her
first love, Stephen
Tredre.
"Looking
back, I see what I was
dealing with when
Titanic came out," the
31-year-old actress says
in Sunday's Parade
magazine. "I had a lot
of pain, and I was
confused about who I
was.
Kate
Winslet, who is married
to director Sam Mendes,
met Tredre in London
when she was 15 and he
was 28. "He was the most
important person in my
life, next to my
family," she says of
Tredre, who worked as a
TV writer and
actor.
"I
was very shy," she says.
"I was vulnerable. Other
girls teased me
horribly. I was bullied.
I'd just put my head
down and get on with it.
That was my means of
survival. Stephen made
me feel secure and
embraced."
Tredre
was diagnosed with bone
cancer in 1994, and died
three years later during
the opening week of
Titanic. The two had
ended their relationship
but "talked every day",
she says. "This was not
somebody I'd turn my
back on."
His
death was "unbelievably
heartbreaking," says
Kate Winslet, who went
on to star in such
movies as Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless
Mind and Finding
Neverland.
Kate
found love anew with
Mendes, 41, whom she wed
in 2003. The two have a
two-year-old son, Joe,
and Winslet has a
six-year-old daughter,
Mia, from her first
marriage, to James
Threapleton.
"I
believe in fate," she
says. "I know it sounds
corny, but it was like
Sam and I were from the
same tribe. We were
meant to meet: Both of
us from Reading, both
born in the same tiny
hospital, Dellwood.
SThen suddenly, years
later, this totally
gorgeous, sexy, talented
man is in my life?
That's fate."
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