After ending a long and unhappy marriage of almost 23 years, McKean realized that Susan Russell (his first wife) was not the one for him.
Anette O’Toole first met McKean while he was working on the American sitcom Laverne & Shirley. McKean and O’Toole were both going through their divorces when they started a friendship through email. Like McKean, O’Toole is a showbiz star who started acting from a young age and ascended to fame and success to become a formidable film and stage actor, composer, singer, and producer.
The duo starred as each other’s rivals in the movie Final Justice and while on set; they bonded over their children and love for reading. Eventually, McKean asked her out on a date, and O’Toole even joked that she could understand he had genuine feelings for her in his voice.
The phone rings, and it’s him. And I heard it in his voice that he liked me that way.
O’Toole agreed to go on a date with him, and they ended up going to a Van Morrison and Bob Dylan concert and clung onto each other the entire night.
