Jack Nicholsondaughter of Lorraine Nicholson Her father was close friends with a paramour.

“For many girls, a best friend is their first love. They spend all their time together. Learn from each other. Protect each other,” Lauren, 34, wrote in the Friday, Jan. 24, essay Vanity Fair. “And when it's time for the boys to enter the picture — and one best friend's attention is split between them and the other — it's their first great heartbreak. When I was 9 years old, my best friend was a 30-year-old ingénue Lara Flynn Boyle. "

Twin Peaks Ex BoyleNow 54, began dating Nicholson, now 87, in 1999.

“Like much of the universe, Lara's romance with my father began with a bang. On a quiet summer night in 1999, the newlyweds were getting dressed for dinner, the engine of his Mercedes the only sound," Lauren recalled. "My father was making a left turn on Mulholland from Coldwater, just a quarter of a mile from our house, when their car collided with another. Going forward. When Dad finally got his head dripping, he looked up to see Lara crawling out of the sunroof. 'I can stay here.' No!' and gave off a wheeze of metallic vapor like it was a dead horse."

Lauren also claimed in the article that she didn't learn about the car accident from a family member, but instead from "a nosy mom at school."

"I am I saw my father only a few days ago And he didn't mention the car accident," he wrote. "This news won't be picked up by the tabloids, he wanted to introduce Lara on her own terms."

Jack and Boyle, who have A 33 year age gapFrom 1999 to 2004. Finally, he introduced the actress his children. (Jack is father of six, sharing Lauren and son Ray with ex Rebecca Broussard. He also shares daughter Jennifer Sandra KnightWith son Caleb Susan HandanWith daughter Madhu Winnie Holman and with daughter Tessa Janine Gourin.)

“I'll never forget the first day Lara introduced us to the kids. He came down the outdoor stairs to join us by the pool,” Lauren said. “I remember the sun reflecting off the water, the wind chiming in the trees. Most importantly, I remember what Lara was wearing - a thong bathing suit with flames licking the crotch. We don't need to know that she was nominated for an Emmy that year for her work practice For my brother and I knew we were in the presence of a mighty man. "

He further added, “I was too scared to talk to him that day. Instead, I watched him lurking in the shallows as he read a book on a plastic raft, the wind gently pushing him back and forth across the surface of the water. Finally, here she came, the answer to my prayers - Mary Poppins of Mulholland Drive. "

Once he met Lauren Boyle, he said he was captivated by the actress' charm, confidence and compassion.

"Introspectively he felt I was a self-harmer and told stories about the time I had to wear knee socks to hide his scratched-up shins," Lauren said. “Lara made me feel like my pain. … I was a child who felt, despite everything I had materially, that something was missing in my life. Lara did not disappoint these feelings. He told all these stories with a cigarette and a smile because he was alive. "

Over time, Lauren said, she "caught up on (boils) made of glue."

“On behalf of my father, Lara acted as a bridge between him and his children. Suddenly, we were doing something we'd never done before," Lauren added. "In Aspen, we went whitewater rafting on the Colorado River. We kayaked wildly while playing Purchase. In one particularly treacherous game at UNO, my brother and I worked myself up so we couldn't win, neither could my dad."

Jack and Boyle finally called it quits in 2004, and as Lauren wrote in her essay, she still "has no clue why."

“I don't know if he cried or she cried, but I certainly did. I woke up one snowy winter morning at our house in Aspen and she was just gone," Lauren remembered. "I knew my dad's relationship with Lara couldn't last forever, and yet when I was with her what would I do without her. I had no idea."

According to Lauren, the last words Boyle ever said were, "I'll always hold you in my heart, baby." Lauren hasn't seen Boyle since her breakup with Jack.