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Captain & Tennille star
Daryl Dragon is fighting back after
he was publicly trashed by ex-wife and former musical partner
Toni Tennille. “I was drugged — that’s all I can tell you,” the ailing 73-year-old keyboardist told The National ENQUIRER in an exclusive interview from his home in Arizona on March 17. He added sarcastically: “I’m just wonderful. I have Parkinson’s [disease].”
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Daryl's outbursts came after The ENQUIRER revealed that
he's blasted by Toni, who divorced him in 2014 following 39 years of marriage. A friend of Daryl’s told The ENQUIRER that Toni was “about as mean and cruel as you can get” after she ripped him in a published interview related to the release of her new self-titled memoir.
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While Daryl is suffering from debilitating tremors caused by his neurological condition, Toni, 75, blasted her ex. She said: “Did we have sex? Yes. But it was never tender, it was never emotional, it was never a joining of two hearts … That’s why I eventually said, ‘To heck with this.’”
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Toni further ridiculed Daryl for his attempts to get her to eat healthy with regimens like a grapefruit diet, calling them “crazy ideas.” She also callously criticized his looks in discussing his failed hair transplant and a medical condition that gave him unusually large eyeballs.
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“The poor guy has serious medical issues, and she is practically dancing on his grave,” the source told The ENQUIRER. “She killed their marriage, and now this book — what else can she do to humiliate him?”
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Despite Daryl’s best attempts to keep the marriage afloat, Toni finalized the split in July 2014. Daryl insisted to The ENQUIRER that he won’t talk about Toni’s new memoir. “No," he said, "I haven’t read it."
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