Anna Nicole Smith’s ‘secret’ girlfriend claims they ‘married in the backyard’

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Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me” — that the two were in a “secret relationship” and got married “in the backyard by the pool” in 1993 after Smith proposed to her.Byrum and Smith met at a strip club in Houston where they both worked in the late ’90s when they became best friends and eventually fell in love, she said.Their relationship started in 1992, a year before Smith proposed.“She gave me a set of rings and we got married in the backyard by the pool with champagne … She wanted me to have a baby with her,” Byrum told People. “But I always knew it wasn’t ever going to work out because she was never, ever going to settle down with one person.”“She needed more love than any one human being could give her,” Byrum added, saying that their relationship ultimately ended over Smith’s addiction to painkillers.Smith died of an accidental overdose in 2007 at the age of 39, and the doc aims to share the tragic life of the late Playboy.She famously married billionaire J.

Howard Marshall II, then 89, in 1994 when she was just 26 years old — her second marriage and his third.But Marshall “knew that she was a young woman and needed certain things.

He allowed her to have her boy toys or whatever,” Byrum told People.Due to their age gap, the 1993 Playmate of the Year often faced accusations that she was just with Marshall to inherit his money after he died, which she denied time and time again.“She really loved him,” Smith’s uncle George Beall told the magazine. “The way he took care of her and looked out for her — she cared about him a lot.