She moved there from Los Angeles in 1996. In 2004, she married now-retired UC Irvine computer science professor Tatsuya Suda, with whom she quietly lives in Fallbrook. After he did a nude photo shoot for Playboy with another actress and co-star, Sarah Miles, Kristofferson came home so drunk, Coolidge recounts in her memoir, that “suddenly he whirled around and struck me with his fist square in my eye.” While their relationship reached heady highs, Kristofferson also cheated on her, she writes, including with French actress Isabelle Huppert. She was on Valium during the ceremony, because of her nerves. Kristofferson was a heavy drinker who at one point consumed “a quart of vodka a day.” He arrived, late and stoned, to his 1974 wedding to Coolidge in Malibu. He won’t be be eligible for parole until 2018. In 1983, Gordon stabbed his mother to death. Jim Gordon, her former boyfriend and the drummer in Delaney & Bonnie and the Eric Clapton-led Derek and the Dominos, punched her so hard in a hotel hallway in 1970, Coolidge writes, that she was briefly rendered unconscious. She was worried she had made a grievous error by being so candid in the 227-page chronicle of her life, which will be published April 5 by HarperCollins. “I cried for an hour when I finished reading it for the first time,” Coolidge said. Seating can be reserved with purchase of book from Warwick’s, but book purchase is not required to attend. Where: Warwick’s, 7812 Girard Ave., La JollaĪdmission: Free. “Delta Lady: A Memoir” book discussion and signing by Rita Coolidge