Really? And she married Jack Cassidy, and wasn't he a raging jerk?
A lot of the time the nice girls marry the jerks. Jack Cassidy was always a convincing murderer in Columbo.
A fellow might not want to marry the Elmer Gantry version of Shirley Jones, either.
Cassidy had psychiatric problems, back before terms like "bipolar" had been coined. Like many such people back then, he self-medicated with alcohol. I'm not sure if the "jerk" part was on top of those other problems, or because of them.