Editing Shirley MacLaine (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Shirley MacLaine Deauville 2011.jpg|thumb|upright|right|MacLaine in 2011]]
MacLaine was married to businessman Steve Parker from 1954 until their divorce in 1982. Their daughter, [[Sachi Parker]], was born in 1956.  In April 2011, while promoting her new book, ''I'm Over All That'', she revealed to [[Oprah Winfrey]] that she had had an open relationship with her husband.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bestsyndication.com/?q=20110411_shirley_maclaine_oprah_interview_new_book_i_am_all_over_that_ufo_2012_end_of_the_world.htm| title=Shirley MacLaine interviewed on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show{{'-}}| publisher=BestSyndication.com |date= April 11, 2011}}</ref> MacLaine also told Winfrey that she often fell for the leading men she worked with, the exceptions being [[Jack Lemmon]] (''[[The Apartment]]'', ''[[Irma la Douce]]'') and [[Jack Nicholson]] (''[[Terms of Endearment]]'').<ref>{{cite news|title=Shirley MacLaine admits she slept with three people in one day|date=April 13, 2011|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8447194/Shirley-MacLaine-admits-she-slept-with-three-people-in-one-day.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8447194/Shirley-MacLaine-admits-she-slept-with-three-people-in-one-day.html |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=May 12, 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> MacLaine also had long-running affairs with [[Lord Mountbatten]], whom she met in the 1960s, and Australian politician and two-time [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]] leader [[Andrew Peacock]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Shirley MacLaine reveals all on her affair with former Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock|first=Samantha|last=Maiden|date=April 17, 2011|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/shirley-maclaine-reveals-all-on-her-affair-with-former-foreign-minister-andrew-peacock/news-story/a80d84db1c3c0a1b0090496d613c25dc|access-date=April 17, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theprint.in/world/the-private-lives-of-the-mountbattens-open-marriage-flings-and-paedophilia/281688/|title=The private lives of the Mountbattens — Open marriage, flings and paedophilia|first=Srijan|last=Shukla|website=[[ThePrint]] |date=August 25, 2019}}</ref>

MacLaine has also gotten into feuds with such co-stars as [[Anthony Hopkins]] (''[[A Change of Seasons (film)|A Change of Seasons]]''), who said that "she was the most obnoxious actress I have ever worked with", and [[Debra Winger]] (''Terms of Endearment'').<ref>{{cite news|last=Hawkes|first=Rebecca|title=10 on-screen couples who hated each other in real life|date=February 13, 2015|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11408307/10-on-screen-couples-who-hated-each-other-in-real-life.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11408307/10-on-screen-couples-who-hated-each-other-in-real-life.html |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=June 1, 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Graham |first=Mark |title=After All These Years, Debra Winger Still Can't Stand Shirley MacLaine's Guts |date=September 6, 2008 |publisher=[[Gawker]] |url=http://gawker.com/5014822/after-all-these-years-debra-winger-still-cant-stand-shirley-maclaines-guts |access-date=June 6, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607061403/http://gawker.com/5014822/after-all-these-years-debra-winger-still-cant-stand-shirley-maclaines-guts |archive-date=June 7, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Brew|first=Simon|title=14 Co-stars Who Really Didn't Get Along|date=September 27, 2013|publisher=[[Dennis Publishing]]|url=http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/co-stars/198892/14-co-stars-who-really-didnt-get-along|access-date=June 6, 2015|archive-date=June 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607040119/http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/co-stars/198892/14-co-stars-who-really-didnt-get-along|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Debra Winger: The return of a class act|date=October 24, 2008|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/debra-winger-the-return-of-a-class-act-971262.html|first=Gaynor|last= Flynn|access-date=June 6, 2015}}</ref>

MacLaine claimed that in a previous life in [[Atlantis]] she was the brother of a 35,000-year-old spirit named Ramtha, channeled by mystic teacher and author [[J. Z. Knight]].<ref name="Ramtha 1">{{cite book|last=Farha|first=Bryan|title=A Critical Analysis; Paranormal Claims|year=2007|publisher=University Press of America|location=Lanham, Maryland|isbn=978-0-7618-3772-5|page=2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tzEdpR4gizsC&q=shirley+maclaine+ramtha&pg=PA2}}</ref><ref name="Ramtha 2">{{cite book|last=Chryssides|first=George D.|title=The A to Z of New Religious Movements|year=2001|publisher=Scarecrow Press, Inc.|location=Lanham, Maryland|isbn=978-0-8108-5588-5|page=191|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hq988pEebSAC&q=shirley+maclaine+ramtha&pg=PA191}}</ref>

She has a strong interest in spirituality and metaphysics, which are the central themes of some of her best-selling books, including ''[[Out on a Limb (book)|Out on a Limb]]'' and ''Dancing in the Light''. Her spiritual explorations include walking the [[Camino de Santiago|Way of St. James]], working with Chris Griscom,<ref>{{cite news|last=Haederle|first=Michael|title=School Founder Listened to That Little Voice|date=February 6, 1992|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-02-06-vw-1977-story.html|access-date=May 12, 2015}}</ref> and practicing [[Transcendental Meditation]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-maharishi6feb06,1,1158944.story |work= [[Los Angeles Times]] |title=Maharishi Mahesh Yogi|date= February 6, 2008 |access-date= March 6, 2010}}</ref>

[[File:Star-Spangled_Women_(cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|left|MacLaine conceived and produced the variety show [[Star-Spangled Women for McGovern–Shriver]]]]
The topic of [[New Age]] spirituality has also found its way into several of her films. In [[Albert Brooks]]'s romantic comedy ''[[Defending Your Life]]'' (1991), the recently deceased lead characters, played by Brooks and [[Meryl Streep]], are astonished to find MacLaine introducing their past lives in the "Past Lives Pavilion"; in ''[[Postcards from the Edge (film)|Postcards from the Edge]]'' (1990), MacLaine sings a version of "I'm Still Here", with lyrics customized for her by composer [[Stephen Sondheim]] (for example, one line in the lyrics was changed to "I'm feeling transcendental – am I here?"); and in the 2001 television movie ''[[These Old Broads]]'', MacLaine's character is a devotee of New Age spirituality.

She has an interest in [[UFOs]], and gave numerous interviews on [[CNN]], [[NBC]] and [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] news channels on the subject during 2007–08. In her book ''Sage-ing While Age-ing'' (2007), she described having alien encounters and witnessing the [[1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna21655677|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005170647/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/21655677/ns/today-books/t/shirley-maclaine-older-much-wiser/|url-status=live|archive-date=October 5, 2012|title=NBC, Today show: Shirley MacLaine: Older and much wiser|publisher=[[MSNBC]]|date= November 7, 2007}}</ref> On an episode of ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]'' in April 2011, MacLaine stated that she and her neighbor had observed numerous UFOs at her New Mexico ranch for extended periods of time.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Hollywood-Legend-Shirley-MacLaine/7|title=Hollywood Legend Shirley MacLaine| publisher= oprah.com| date= April 11, 2011}}</ref>

Along with her brother Warren Beatty, MacLaine used her celebrity status in instrumental roles as a [[Celebrity activists in George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign|fundraiser and organizer]] for [[George McGovern]]'s [[George McGovern presidential campaign, 1972|campaign for president in 1972]].<ref name="MacLaine, Shirley 1972">MacLaine, Shirley, ''McGovern: The Man and His Beliefs'', New York: [[W. W. Norton & Company]], 1972.</ref><ref>McGovern, George S., ''Grassroots: The Autobiography of George McGovern'', New York: [[Random House]], 1977, pp. 126, 172.</ref><ref>White, Theodore H., ''[[Theodore H. White#Making of the President series|The Making of the President 1972]]'', [[Atheneum Publishers]], 1973, pp. 236, 258, 425.</ref> That year, she wrote the book ''McGovern: The Man and His Beliefs''.<ref name="MacLaine, Shirley 1972"/> She appeared at her brother's concerts [[Four for McGovern]] and [[Together for McGovern]], and she joined with [[Sid Bernstein (impresario)|Sid Bernstein]] to produce the woman-focused [[Star-Spangled Women for McGovern–Shriver]] variety show at [[Madison Square Garden]].<ref name=Billboard>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4g8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13 |title=Political Concerts: Losers & Winners |last=Melanson |first=Jim |date=November 11, 1972 |page=13 |magazine=Billboard |volume=84 |number=46 |issn=0006-2510}}</ref> So much of her time was spent away from acting in 1972 that her [[talent agent]] threatened to quit; she turned down film projects and spent $250,000 of her own money on political activism, equivalent to ${{Format price|{{Inflation|US-GDP|250,000|1972|r=-5}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}.<ref name=VF>{{cite magazine |last=Anson |first=Robert Sam |authorlink=Robert Sam Anson |date=November 6, 2012 |title=McGovern '72: An Oral History |magazine=Vanity Fair |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/politics/2012/11/george-mcgovern-richard-nixon-election |accessdate=August 5, 2020}}</ref>

MacLaine is godmother to journalist [[Jackie Kucinich]], daughter of former [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] [[U.S. Representative]] [[Dennis Kucinich]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/01/15/kucinich-blends-new-age-aura-with-old-school-grit/646895ab-06ce-4959-bb0f-0380c60dab1a/|title=Kucinich Blends New Age Aura With Old-School Grit|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|author=Farhi, Paul|date=January 15, 2005}}</ref>

On February 7, 2013, [[Penguin Group|Penguin Group USA]] published Sachi Parker's autobiography ''Lucky Me: My Life With – and Without – My Mom, Shirley MacLaine''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130515075327/http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0%2C%2C9781592407880%2C00.html ''Lucky Me'']. Penguin Group</ref>  One of its claims was that, when Sachi was in her 20s, her mother told her she believed that Steve Parker was a clone of her real father, an astronaut named Paul then traveling in the [[Pleiades]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Lucky Me: My Life With – and Without – My Mom, Shirley MacLaine|author=Parker, Sachi|pages=206–220|publisher=[[Avery Publishing]]|date=December 3, 2013|isbn=9781592407880}}</ref><ref name=Gostin>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/shirley-maclaines-daughter-my-mom-thought-my-dad-was-a-clone-astronaut|title=Shirley MacLaine's daughter: My mom thought my dad was a clone, astronaut|author=Gostin, Nicki|website=FoxNews.com|publisher=[[Fox News]]|access-date=February 12, 2013}}</ref> MacLaine denied this and called the book "virtually all fiction".<ref name=Gostin />
In her 2024 book, ''The Wall of Life,'' MacLaine states that she and her daughter "have never been closer." <ref>{{cite book |last1=MacLaine |first1=Shirley |title=The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories from This Marvelous Lifetime |date=2024 |publisher=The Crown Publishing Group |location=New York |isbn=0593735315 |edition=1st}}</ref>