Did Ali MacGraw Ruin Steve McQueen?!

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/25970304-did-ali-macgraw-ruin-steve-mcqueen-!

From Ali MacGraw' book "Moving Pictures":

" It was all wonderful, and I was enjoying the ecstasy of being in Paris with Steve. This evening had the makings of another peak experience: I was in a city I loved, with a man I loved....We had a bottle of champagne and began to celebrate. We started to dance — and then something happened. Steve said, “Stop trying to lead.”

Today I can see that that was quite a metaphor for our life together. That night in the restaurant I went berserk, began to cry and flail at Steve, who, incidentally, had a black belt in karate. We continued this scene outside in the courtyard, where only a miracle prevented us from being seen and photographed by some fan. When we got back to the hotel I passed out.

In the morning Steve told me quietly that I should go back to Los Angeles. I wept and wept and promised never to act like that again. Eventually he gave in, and we drove in tension and sadness from Paris to San Sebastián, on the Atlantic coast of Spain. By the time we arrived, everything was once again fine, but the experience had scared me. It was the first time in my life that I had completely lost control of myself.

Years and years of rage and fear and sadness had been released by a relatively innocent sentence, and the situation was exacerbated by the amount of champagne I had consumed."