Hey, the bird show.

Celebrities, they're just like us.

They have complicated families and dark hidden secrets.

And I have a Hollywood story so wild, so twisted, so expertly covered up that it makes Scientology look like a Pinterest board.

It's all about actor Clark Gable, the Hollywood icon, the human jawline, the emotional liability in a three-piece suit, who had a secret love child with Loretta Young in the 1930s.

And when I say secret, I mean career ending. You're about to get blacklisted kind of secret.

Hear ye, hear ye. Come forth, all Instagram betties and crypto bros

for the most senacious gossip in the whole village.

Abby's done the work to bring you the old gossip.

So allow me to set the scene for you.

It's almost 100 years ago.

It is 1935 and Clark and Loretta Young are filming Call of the Wild together.

Clark Gable, he's married, but he's doing that thing where he smolders with both eyes and women's

legs just fly open.

Now, Loretta, she is a devout Catholic. Like she could guilt a priest into repenting,

but somehow she ends up pregnant. In 1930s, Hollywood, that's less of a life event and more of a

public relations disaster, not just because Clark Gable was cheating on his wife, but because

a child out of wedlock was the social equivalent to advertising

your only fans and a church bulletin. Obviously, abortion back in those days wasn't really an

option. It was illegal, unsafe, and also, again, Loretta devoutly Catholic. She believed in God,

the studio system, and not letting a little thing like biology ruin her ratings. So she pulls the most elegant disappearing act in Hollywood history.

She quote unquote goes on vacation, which is the official 1930s euphemism for, I'll be gone

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