He leveraged her fear that this would be their last time together, having told her that he needed to see other women before he married her, then telling her that she was too good for him, that she had a calling—acting—and he did not, and that he needed to find direction on his own. Alone. But then she would hear and read about the movie star he was seeing, Daryl. John and Daryl were all over the tabloids.
