Symbria Wright: Who is Johnny Whitaker’s ex-wife?

Symbria Wright is the Ex-wife of Johnny Whitaker’s ex-wife. Symbria’s Ex-husband, Johnny is an American actor notable for several performances for film and television during his childhood. The redheaded Whitaker played Jody Davis on Family Affair from 1966 to 1971. He also originated the role of Scotty Baldwin on General Hospital in 1965, played the lead in Hallmark’s 1969 The Littlest Angel, and portrayed the title character in the 1973 musical version of Tom Sawyer.

Symbria Wright: Bio Summary

Who is Johnny Whitaker’s ex-wife?

Johnny Whitaker’s ex-wife was Reseda, Los Angeles, California, United States born Symbria Wright. According to reports, she met her during his time in college and the couple walked down the aisle in 1984 in a beautiful ceremony in the presence of friends and family.

Though they promise each other forever on that faithful day, things didn’t go as planned. Their marriage got sour along the line and they called it a quit after three years of being togther. They divorced in 1988. “My wife divorced me after three years so she could marry the man who gave me my bachelor party. That was strike No. 1,” Whitaker said per Eastidahonews’s report.

 The Family Affair actor later connected with a woman who had a four-year-old daughter. Johnny Whitaker grew to love the mother and the child and wanted to make the woman his wife, but it wasn’t in the cards. The actor revealed the woman had some mental issues and killed herself. He was in L.A. for a job, when he got a call telling him his girlfriend had hanged herself, killing herself.

“The day after I found out about her passing, I got a letter stating that my divorce was 100% final and done, and that was strike three. I said ‘God doesn’t exist. I’m leaving all the beliefs I have because God wouldn’t do this to me if he were God.’ I went to the dark side,” he says, referencing the line from “Star Wars.”

Symbria Wright’s ex-husband, Whitaker began his professional acting career at the age of three by appearing in a television commercial for a local used car dealer. He went on to appear in ads for Mattel Toymakers, for such toys as Larry the Lion and Crackers the Parrot in their Animal Yackers series.

In 1965, Whitaker originated the character of the young Scotty Baldwin in the soap opera General Hospital. In 1966, he acted in a major feature film, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, which also starred Brian Keith, the actor who would later play Whitaker’s uncle in the television series Family Affair.

However, Symbria Wright’s ex-husband, Whitaker struggled as an adult with an addiction to drugs and alcohol until his family held an intervention and threatened to cut off contact with him unless he got help. He agreed and joined a twelve-step program; later becoming a certified drug counselor and founder of a nonprofit organization for Spanish-speaking addicts. In 2011, he said he had been clean and sober for 13 years.

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While talking to the LA Daily News, Symbria Wright’s ex-husband said- “I decided to go to the dark side, I made a conscious decision that being a goody two-shoes had gotten me nowhere.” Whitaker still takes occasional turns at acting but ” look at this as my destiny,” Whitaker said of his current efforts to help addicts. “I am not ashamed of my celebrity. I have not always made the right choices in my life, but everything happens for a reason.”