George Harrison said Eric Clapton 'had the problem' as Patti Boyd left him for the guitarist
Music icon George Harrison said he was fine with Patti Boyd leaving him for Eric Clapton. It was the Cream guitarist who "had the problem."
The cracks between The Beatles' guitarist and his first wife had been forming for years. They had fallen in love on the set of the Fab Four's A Hard Day's Night, did everything together “as though they were a single entity," had bonded over spirituality throughout the late 1960s, and gotten through The Beatles highly public split.
However, eventually after receiving some love letters and other advances, Boyd couldn't help her attraction to Clapton anymore. Since she and Harrison had been growing apart for awhile, Harrison didn't think it was such a big deal that Boyd wanted to divorce him and begin a relationship with his close friend.
In a 1977 interview, Crawdaddy asked Harrison about his thoughts on Boyd being the inspiration of Clapton's hit song Layla while he was still married to her: "I remember him saying he was dedicating Layla to some mystery woman. Did you know what was happening?"
Source: themirror.com/Hannah Furnell
