#26: Faces Public Backlash in the Early 1980s as Esther Williams Speaks Openly About the Marriage
After the divorce, Esther Williams began speaking more openly about her marriage to Fernando Lamas. She described years of emotional control, anger, and fear, changing how the public understood their relationship.
These accounts damaged Lamas’s image. What had once been seen as a glamorous but private marriage was now viewed as troubled and harmful, and sympathy increasingly shifted toward Williams rather than him.