*** became a “leather nun” in San Francisco, and generally went completely nuts.***
NO! NO! Not Debbie Reynolds!
Actually Sister Sourire filed a lawsuit against Sally Field and the production company that did The Flying Nun. It was pretty much laughed out of court.
Allegedly her great American tour went rotten as soon as she touched down in San Francisco. Alcohol, drugs, hedonistic sex, you name it. Several tour dates were canceled because she was unconscious. But the climax came at Notre Dame.
She was going to give a huge concert there, but first gave a command performance in front of luminaries including Robert F. Kennedy. It was a disaster. She started singing her song, then got increasingly shrill and finally stood up and started slinging profanities at Kennedy before “excommunicating” him. That was pretty much the end of her tour. She was sent back to Belgium.
However, she then made several scandals at her convent, and out of sheer luck was invited to meet the Pope. He showed little interest in her idea of creating a new order of singing nuns, with her as the Mother Superior General, and ended up cursing him to his face.
Pretty much the end of her holy orders. So, back to the US. Things just got uglier and uglier.