There's an extraordinary moment in Bill Wyman's glossy new film about his life where he acknowledges that he made a mistake. No, not that mistake. In the hour-and-a-half documentary, Wyman doesn't express a single regret about allegedly having an intimate relationship with 13-year-old Mandy Smith. In his head, his mistake seems to have been marrying her. 'I was stupid to ever think it could possibly work,' he says, in a moment that could almost be described as self-reflection. Those who know Bill Wyman (pictured marrying Mandy Smith in 1989) say that if he hadn't been a Rolling Stone, he would have made a great librarian. His obsession with meticulous documentation is a surprising trait to find in a rock legend, but it is one that has served him well 'Two sad marriages really, and I decided it was time I got my f****** life in order.' Of course, Bill Wyman — now happily married to his third wife and worth an estimated £60 million — did get his life in order. In the audience for the New York premiere of the film — called The Quiet One and billed as a 'first-hand journey through Wyman's extraordinary experiences' — was his third wife, Suzanne Accosta. There, too, was Jerry Hall, a former Rolling Stones wife. Also in the audience were at least two of Wyman's three grown-up daughters. Awkward? If it was, no one said so. Bill Wyman, his daughter Katherine, left, and wife Suzanne Wyman, right, are pictured together last month. There's an extraordinary moment in Bill Wyman's glossy new film about his life where he acknowledges that he made a mistake Those who know Bill Wyman say that if he hadn't been a Rolling Stone, he would have made a great librarian. His obsession with meticulous documentation is a surprising trait to find in a rock legend, but it is one that has served him well. In his days as the bass guitarist with the Stones, Wyman, regarded as the 'boring' one of the band, was the official archivist, painstakingly indexing and cross-referencing pictures, tickets, posters, letters. He has since written books drawing on his personal diaries in which he recorded every detail of his life. Indeed, the film promises cinema-goers an encounter with an 'amusing, engaging and down-to-earth man'. Or it was until the European premiere, due to be held in Sheffield next month and include a Q&A session with Wyman, was pulled amid accusations that the organisers were giving a platform to a 'sexual predator'. Mandy Smith is pictured above. She kept her own diary during their relationship and in 1994 she went public with a book telling her version of their relationship. Called It's All Over Now, it offers a textbook example of how a young girl can be exploited because, sadly, she believed she was complicit in his behaviour Perhaps it was inevitable. Of all his 1,000 women, one stands out, because she wasn't a woman at all, but a young teenage girl. Wyman's relationship, and subsequent marriage to Mandy Smith, who was just 13 when they met and, according to her, 14 when they started having sex, has long been controversial. Now, in the age of #MeToo, the discomfort surrounding this dark chapter of rock history has taken on a whole new slant. In one segment of the film, Wyman documents the women who used to pursue him. 'Me and Brian [Jones, fellow Rolling Stone] used to go out to the clubs and pick up girls,' he says. 'They used to camp outside the hotel. 'Of course, I jumped at it. It just became part of my life . . . There was probably an addiction to sex, because I wasn't addicted to drugs, and I wasn't addicted to wine.' In the hour-and-a-half documentary, Wyman doesn't express a single regret about allegedly having an intimate relationship with 13-year-old Mandy Smith. In his head, his mistake seems to have been marrying her. The pair are pictured together in 1989, the year Wyman married her when she was aged 18 Every pop legend of that generation could probably tell a similar story. But how does he explain the chapter of his life which involved seducing a 13-year-old? Answer: he doesn't. He fails to mention Mandy's age, or the huge controversy that surrounded that relationship. To viewers of this film, she is just another girl in a very long line of them. 'I got this invite to go to an event and there were all these people dancing,' he says of their first meeting. 'I saw this beautiful girl with her hair up, spoke to her and found her name was Mandy Smith. 'It was from the heart. It wasn't from lust or anything like that, which people were seeing it as.' In June 1989, the pair married when Mandy was 18. But the marriage was over almost before it had begun. Within weeks, Mandy — pale, thin, by then seriously ill — had moved out and the couple divorced in 1993 The film cuts to a press conference some years later when the pair announced their eventual marriage. Wyman is asked whether he is hesitant about marrying again, having been a 'bachelor boy for so long'. 'I always thought she was the right girl from the moment I met her, but it was the wrong time. She was too young.' And that's it. The Mandy Smith chapter finished. Then again, Wyman has long since adopted a weary tone when Mandy's name is mentioned. In one interview he pointed out that he had approached the police and prosecutors himself to see if they wanted to interview him, only to be told they were not interested. That the matter wouldn't go away clearly pained him. 'We all have a skeleton in the cupboard,' he admitted in 2013. 'It's just if you are a taxi driver in Halifax no one ever hears about it. But if you are a celebrity, everyone does. In my case, it was publicised to the world and that wasn't really fair.' The truth, says his one-time friend, author and journalist Lesley-Ann Jones, is very different.<doc-sep>Bill Wyman regrets his controversial marriage to Mandy Smith. Bill Wyman and Mandy Smith The former Rolling Stones star was 47 and Mandy was just 13 when their relationship began and the pair went on to tie the knot when she was 18 but Bill has admitted he was "really stupid" to think that the marriage was a good idea. Speaking in the documentary 'The Quiet One', which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last week, Bill, 82, said: "It was from the heart. It wasn't lust, which people were seeing it as. I was really stupid to ever think it could possibly work. She was too young. I felt she had to go out and see life for a bit." 'The Quiet One' is written and directed by British filmmaker Oliver Murray and features footage and photos from Wyman's time with the Rolling Stones. Mandy and Bill married in June 1989 but separated two years later. Although Mandy had maintained they had waited before starting the sexual side of their relationship, years later the model claimed they first had sex when she was 14, below the legal age of consent in the UK which is 16. And a pal of Bill's recently admitted she was "ashamed" that never challenged Bill over the "illegal and immoral" relationship. In an extract from her book 'Tumbling Dice' published in The Times newspaper, writer-and-journalist Lesley-Ann Jones said: "It was an illegal and immoral relationship. It was accepted, and blind eyes were turned. The perpetrator was an A-list rock star. I am a mother of a son and two daughters. I turned a blind eye too. I am ashamed." Lesley-Ann has admitted she will always be "tormented" by the fact she never said anything to Bill at the time because she knew their relationship was wrong. She said: "Some memories torment us, despite our best efforts to forget them. My guilt is hinged to the things I never said, but really should have. "Because I knew a grown man who was having sex with a child. He was, in those days, my friend. His girlfriend was under the age of consent. The law on this in the UK is clear: if an individual over 18 engages in sexual activity with a person under 16, he or she can be charged with a criminal offence, which may result in a 14-year prison sentence. I was aware of this at the time, but I did nothing." With hindsight, Lesley-Ann believes Bill deliberately gathered a "clan" around him to hide his romance with the teenager. She recalled: "Only all these years later must I admit to myself that Bill was gathering a clan to conceal his love affair with Mandy. "When his limo approached our chosen restaurant for the evening he would say to one of the boys, usually the tall, dark-haired, good-looking one who grew up to become a famous broadcaster and writer, 'Would you mind walking Mandy in?' He would then take my arm and beam for the photographers, snuggling up to me as we emerged from the car. At the end of the night, when the car dropped us off, it would always be Bill and Mandy left in the back." The group only discovered how old Mandy was at her 15th birthday party and they instantly "scarpered" from the couple - but they feel they were "as bad as Bill" for not challenging the situation. While Lesley-Ann believes Bill when he said he had no idea how old Mandy was when they started dating, she insists he should have immediately "backed off" when he found out the truth. She wrote: "The minute Bill discovered Mandy's age, he should have backed off. He would later shrug off the whole tragic episode as a midlife crisis. He got away with it."<doc-sep>Ex Rolling Stone member Bill Wyman has opened up for the first time in years about his controversial marriage to his second wife Mandy Smith. With a 35-year age gap between them, Wyman, 82, wed the model and singer -- who is now 47 -- in 1989. At the time, Wyman was 52 and she was still a teenager at 18. Now, in a new documentary called The Quiet One -- which premiered this week at The Tribeca Film Festival -- the rock star has admitted that he was "really stupid" to have believed that their marriage would work. Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman and Mandy Smith at their wedding reception at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, 5th June 1989. (Photo by Terry O'Neill/Iconic Images/Getty Images) (Getty) According to the NY Daily News, the rocker said in the film, "I was really stupid to ever think it could possibly work. She was too young. I felt she had to go out and see life for a bit." Defending their decision to marry, Wyman insisted that his feelings for Smith at the time, were genuine. RELATED: Rolling Stones delay tour as Jagger seeks medical treatment "It was from the heart. It wasn't lust, which people were seeing it as." Addressing his ex-wife's age in his 1991 autobiography A Standalone, Wyman wrote, "She was a woman at 13. Everyone accepted her as an adult without question." (Getty) Smith first met the bass player during the '80s when she was merely 13, however they waited until she was of legal age to marry. They divorced after just two years of marriage in 1991. The Guardian reported that Smith later claimed that she first had sex with Wyman when she was 14. Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman and Mandy Smith with pageboy and bridesmaids after the blessing of their marriage at St. John?s Church, London, 5th June 1989. (Photo by Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (Getty) Directed and written by British filmmaker Oliver Murray, the documentary features plenty of footage from his time playing with the iconic band of which he was part of the original lineup from 1962 to 1993. LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 18: of The Rolling Stones attends the premiere of 'Crossfire Hurricane' during the 56th BFI London Film Festival at The Odeon Leicester Square on October 18, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Dave J Hogan/Getty Images) (Getty) In the film, the musician also talks about how is womanising habits during the early success of The Rolling Stones contributed to the breakdown of his first marriage to Diane Cory whom he was married to from 1959 to 1969. Sharing a son with Cory, Stephen, Wyman is now married to Suzanne Acosta whom he wed in 1993. Together they have three daughters.<doc-sep>The film, which makes use of the meticulously kept photos, film footage and memorabilia from the rocker’s personal archives, was pulled from England’s Sheffield Doc/Fest next month because of his scandalous relationship with Smith. The pair met when she was 13 and he was 47 in the mid-80s. And though Smith was of legal age when they married, following their divorce a few years later, she claimed they first had sex when she was just 14.<doc-sep>
The Rolling Stones legend Bill Wyman has admitted he was "really stupid" to think marrying Mandy Smith when she was just 18 would work. The bass guitarist, now 82, has told of his regret at the marriage because of the 34-year age gap. Mandy was still a teenager when she became Bill's second wife in 1989 - he was then 52. But the couple separated two years later and finalised their divorce in the early 1990s. "It was from the heart. It wasn’t lust, which people were seeing it as," Bill said. "I was really stupid to ever think it could possibly work. She was too young. I felt she had to go out and see life for a bit." The father-of-four, who was born in Lewisham, southeast London, made the confession in the documentary The Quiet One, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday night. (Image: Mirrorpix) (Image: Zed Jameson / FameFlynet.uk.com) He defends his relationship with Mandy in the film but admits she was "too young". Wyman, who was one of the founding members of the iconic rock group, first met Mandy in London in the mid-80s when she was 13. They married when Mandy reached the legal age of 18. The Quiet One is written and directed by British filmmaker Oliver Murray and features footage and photos from Wyman's years with the Stones. (Image: UK Press) (Image: Getty Images) But the documentary has been pulled from England’s Sheffield Doc/Fest next month because of the rocker's scandalous relationship with Mandy. Bill has since gone on to enjoy a third marriage, with actress Suzanne Accosta. The couple have three daughters and live together near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. (Image: UK Press) (Image: Mirrorpix) The rocker gushes about Suzanne in the new documentary. He also touches on his family life growing up in working class London. The film explores how Bill's father cut short his education by making him leave school to work for a bookie to help support the family. Bill, who was one of the founding members of the iconic rock group, was part of the Rolling Stone's line-up from 1962-1993.