‘Our freedom has been taken away!’ Pattie Boyd, 78, slams youth for being ‘woke’ and ‘sensitive’ – admitting she misses ‘totally free’ Swinging Sixties
Pattie Boyd has slammed today’s youth for being ‘woke’ and ‘oversensitive’, adding that she misses her heyday in the ‘totally free’ Swinging Sixties.
The model, 78, claimed the snowflake youths have stolen her hard-won freedoms, adding that she finds the change in attitude to be ‘odd’.
She said: ‘Everybody’s so different, particularly young people now. You know, they’re woke and over-sensitive about everything. And I thought, “How odd.”
‘Our freedom has been taken away!’ Pattie Boyd has slammed today’s youth for being ‘woke’ and ‘oversensitive’, adding that she misses the ‘totally free’ Swinging Sixties (pictured in 2014)
‘I feel that there’s been a huge cycle, because in the 1960s we broke away. We wanted freedom, we fought for it, and we wore outrageous clothes and short dresses.
‘Artists painted outrageous things, filmmakers started being totally free. Here was a freedom suddenly.
‘I feel that cycle is now coming to an end. The freedom has been taken away. It’s the opposite of the 1960s, when we were brave and we could say and do anything.’
Opinionated: The model, 78, claimed the snowflake youths have stolen her hard-won freedoms, adding that she finds the change in attitude to be ‘odd’ (pictured in the 1960s)
Pattie, who was one of the most photographed figures in Swinging London, dated The Beatles’ George Harrison in the decade, whom she later married.
She inspired a string of pop songs, including George’s Something. She was also at the heart of the most talked-about love triangle in rock history.
Eric Clapton fell for her after becoming a close friend of the late Beatle. When she initially rejected Eric’s advances, he descended into heroin addiction and self-imposed exile for three years.
Once cured, he pursued her again, and she eventually agreed to leave George.
Throwback: ‘I feel that there’s been a huge cycle, because in the 1960s we broke away. We wanted freedom, we fought for it, and we wore outrageous clothes and short dresses’ (pictured in 1966)
She split up with Eric in 1987, and later married property developer Rod Weston in 2015.
In 2019, she revealed her heartache at not being able to become a mother. ‘I thought that, naturally, when I grew up and got married I’d have children,’ she said.
‘I thought it just goes with the idea of being a woman. Then, when it didn’t happen, I started to panic and wondered why.
‘Once you come to terms with the fact that it’s not going to happen to you, it takes a while to get a grip on reality and bite your lip.’
George would not consider adoption when they found out they were unable to conceive. Pattie and Eric were also unable to have children despite trying in vitro fertilisation.
‘The fantasy of having children is wonderful, but when you realise that none of that is going to happen, it’s a hard pill to swallow,’ she said.
‘Once you get over that, you come to the realisation that you’ve got great friends and life is fabulous. I believe that we can’t force nature.’
Iconic: Pattie, who was one of the most photographed figures in Swinging London, dated The Beatles’ George Harrison in the decade, whom she later married (pictured in the 1960s)
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