David Cassidy on the Web
David Cassidy says he was a lonely sex symbol
February 13, 2008
By Owen Williams
www.showbizspy.com
Crooner David Cassidy says he was a lonely sex symbol.
The American singer, who also starred in The Partridge Family, has revealed he never met women and was unable to socialize. "I had no life. I was physically and professionally 25, but I was emotionally 19," he told US talk show host Oprah Winfrey. "I hadn't - other than my wife who later became my wife - I hadn't had a date.
"I couldn't go out, I couldn't go to restaurants, I couldn't do any of that."
Cassidy, now 57, said although having hoards of girls screaming his name was "fun", he was unable to live a normal life. "I honestly can't say that I was truly an innocent, because I was very fortunate," he laughed. "It was a very different time now - coming out of the late sixties and into the seventies.
"Like any red-blooded American boy I was locked up in my hotel room from time to time, because I couldn't go out and socialize.
"It was very difficult for me to meet women - not young girls, because a lot of them were young girls - so it became a very difficult thing for me.
"I wanted to have that relationship. I felt very isolated and lonely."
Cassidy continued: "You're an idol, you're a sex symbol, you're all that stuff.
"No - what I am is a songwriter, I'm an actor, I'm a singer, I'm a writer, I'm a producer, I'm a director and I've done all of that.
"In order to date you have to meet people and I couldn't meet people.
"In the end I found it so difficult to be just a human being."
The songwriter said he was worried that we now lived in a world which is saturated with celebrity. "I think it's a dangerous thing now where people just want to be famous," he told Oprah. "We have become celebrity obsessed.
"The only thing that lasts, the only thing that survives, is talent."
