Blond bombshell Loni Anderson – who died on August 3 from an undisclosed illness two days shy of her 80th birthday – proved that the best revenge is living well by thriving after the end of her nightmare marriage to Hollywood dreamboat Burt Reynolds , RadarOnline.com can reveal.

The WKRP in Cincinnati star got hitched to Reynolds in 1988, but five years later, the estranged couple were locked in a mudslinging divorce .

Anderson accused her Stroker Ace costar of being a hot-tempered pill-popper who terrorized her physically and emotionally.

She even claimed the Smokey and the Bandit hero once gave her a gun and told her to end her life. Article continues below advertisement

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