Do any of you live in WeHo? Bridget did for years. She still might. I’m assuming she does.
Anyhow, she used to go to the Trader Joe’s that was on Santa Monica and Poinsettia, the one that was on that huge lot with a bunch of other small businesses that were all demolished for building that huge apartment complex.
There was a coffee shop , a cigarette shop, and a laundry mat there too. Bridget would hang out at the coffee shop, sit outside, smoking and drinking coffee. She talked to everyone and anyone who came to buy smokes, do laundry, or whatever. She would engage pretty much anyone who wanted to chat. She was extremely friendly, and sometimes quite drunk. Regardless of her sobriety on any given day, this was Bardot’s hang out.
I went to the coffee shop regularly. Sometimes a few times a day because I love walking and I love coffee.
We would talk about men, women, love, death, films that had recently come out, whatever.
So here’s the kicker: I had NO IDEA that she was Bridget Bardot!!! NONE!
She had told me her name when we first met, and I had told her mine, but after that we called each other “hon” or “Love”. I knew she had been an actress, because she mentioned it here and there, but she never went into details. I thought she was just this really cool West Hollywood senior citizen, who smiled at everyone and said Hi!!!
And I am not alone, because we sat together often, and for an hour, here and there. Sometimes we would walk to Plummer Park or wherever.
One day I was getting some stuff at Trader Joe’s, and one of the cashiers who was a total sweetheart, asked me how I liked hanging out with a Hollywood icon, and wasn’t she just the nicest lady, and I was like, “who and what are you talking about???”
That’s when I found out I had become friends with Bridget Bardot!
