DARK-EYED beauty Jaclyn
Smith of Charlie's Angels
has proved she really is an
angel with a bitter attack
on Hollywood's permissive lifestyle.
The 28-year-old actress, who
plays a liberated, sexy
super-sleuth on the
top-rated show, says she's
nothing like her image in
real-life. She is, she
insists, just an
old-fashioned girl who is
horrified by the movie
capital's boozing and
drug-taking party scene.
"I don't want to sound like
a saint heading for church
every Sunday, but I do have
my own values,'' Jaclyn
said.
"I'm shocked when girls talk
about their one-night
stands. I just don't
understand how they can meet
somebody and then . . . boom
the next minute."
Jaclyn, who has been
divorced and is currently
going steady with actor
Dennis Cole said she found
Hollywood life upsetting and
offensive. "It would be
impossible for me to relate
to the casualness of most
girls here who are off with
a different man each
night," she said.
"In a million years I
wouldn't want that for
myself. I know it is
accepted and this is the way
it is. I'm not saying it is
wrong, but it is just not
the ideal lifestyle for me.
"I went to one discotheque
and saw people openly
passing envelopes containing
drugs to each other. I would
never go back to a
discotheque again. It was a
dreadful place.
"I've never tried pot. I
have no desire for it, or
hard liquor. I've had a
little wine every now and
again but I'd rather have
ginger ale.''
Jaclyn grew up in a
religious home in Houston,
Texas, in a "Sunday school
atmosphere", Her grandfather
was Methodist minister
Gaston Hartsfield, and she
used to help him recite long
passages from the Bible when
his eyesight started
failing.
She said: "My parents are
still my best friends. They
instil in me a sense of
conscience. Their life is
how I would like my life to
be. So I have never needed
to rebel or go against my
parents or their values.
"I was late in learning
things in life — my husband
was the first man in my life
— but that's not so wrong
and I'm not going to
apologise-for it." Jaclyn is
divorced from actor Roger
Davis, of Alias Smith And
Jones fame. She married him
after a brief courtship — he
proposed on the second date.
She struggled both outwardly
and physically to make a go
of the relationship but
found it impossible.
The word divorce horrified
her and it was two years
after they separated before
she could bring herself to
go through what was for her
an unforgivable severing of
the sacred vows of marriage.
She was so upset that she
could not tell her parents
until some time later of the
divorce. Jaclyn claimed that
her conservative beliefs are
laughed at by many people
who think she is missing out
on life. "I'm labelled
goody-two-shoes but I don't
really know why," she said.
"My beliefs are simple, nice
and they give me answers;
they make me laugh and feel
lucky. They give me security
in life and I can always
turn to them. There can't be
anything wrong with that."
Boyfriend Dennis Cole, who
once posed nude for a
magazine centerfold, insists
he shares many of Jaclyn's
beliefs. "I believe in
marriage and in being
faithful," he said. "I'm
going to keep the high
standards she holds to, She
may well be old fashioned
but what a delightful change
to find somebody like her in
Hollywood."
But Jaclyn is not in a rush
get married: "My first was a
mistake and it didn't work.
I'm really for marriage and
a family and home. When I
love somebody I'm totally
devoted and faithful and I
couldn't bear a second
failure."
Besides her $15,000 an
episode job with Charlie's
Angels, she has just
negotiated a $3 million
contract to launch her own
movie production company.
And she has guest spots
lined up in top-rated
series. Jaclyn also gets
$100,000 a year from
commercials for Wella
Shampoo and Max Factor
cosmetics, and has $5
million tied up in land
buildings in Hollywood and
antiques.







