Isabella Rossellini Remembers Ex-Husband Martin Scorsese's Past Anger Issues: 'It Was Complex to Be with Him' 

Isabella Rossellini reflects connected her matrimony to Martin Scorsese successful Apple TV's caller documentary astir nan Oscar-winning filmmaker.

In nan 3rd section of head Rebecca Miller's wide-ranging five-part docuseries Mr. Scorsese, Rossellini, 73, recalls that during their three-year marriage, which lasted from 1979 to 1982, Scorsese "could get really angry."

"Not toward me," Rossellini clarifies. "He ne'er deed maine aliases thing for illustration that, but he could demolish a room. A friend of his erstwhile filmed him and showed it to him. Marty was shocked because he didn't recognize nan level of unit that this minuscule body, asthmatic, could [create.] It was for illustration a volcano. It was terrifying."

Scorsese and Rossellini's matrimony spanned nan making of 2 of nan director's movies — 1980's Raging Bull and 1982's The King of Comedy — some of which starred his predominant collaborator Robert De Niro. As Both Rossellini and Scorsese, 82, retrieve successful nan documentary, nan head went done a depressive play while making nan second film. 

"I don't moreover retrieve why he sewage truthful mad. I deliberation that sometimes it could beryllium a very silly small logic that would make him spell complete nan top," Rossellini adds. "Sometimes he [would] aftermath up like, 'F--- it, f--- it, f--- it,' and I would opportunity 'Marty, nan time hasn't moreover started.' Then I understood that partially besides this rage was portion of nan substance to springiness him courage; because you know, he was this small boy from Little Italy and was now this large head who had to nonstop this large movie and large budget. And I deliberation rage gave him that stamina to get done nan day, to get to decorativeness nan film, because it's not easy. So it was analyzable to beryllium pinch him."

Scorsese's matrimony to Rossellini was his third; he has been joined 5 times and has been joined to Helen Morris since 1999; they stock daughter Francesca, 25. He shares daughter Cathy, 59, pinch first woman Laraine Marie Brennan, and girl Domenica, 49, pinch journalist Julia Cameron; passim nan docuseries, Scorsese's older daughters reflect connected increasing up pinch a begetter who was not ever physically disposable arsenic he embarked connected his movie profession successful nan 1970s and '80s.

Scorsese and Rossellini divided successful 1982; Rossellini was later joined to model-turned-Microsoft executive Jon Wiedemann from 1983 to 1986. They stock girl Elettra Wiedemann, 42; nan character is besides mom to Roberto Rossellini, 43.

successful Mr. Scorsese, nan film's taxable tells documentarian Miller, 63, that he was "having individual problems truthful severely that I couldn't edit" The King of Comedy, starring to nan movie almost being taken retired of his hands.

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"Very overmuch so, yeah," he says, erstwhile asked if he was depressed astatine that time. "I ne'er knowledgeable specified slump — trying to work, not being capable to work, having problems, complaining, getting crazy. I would effort to meet different people, I would effort to commencement to person relationships, ne'er worked."