him when I was a performer on `` Not The Nine O'Clock News '' and he was a guest . He was just shaggy and some kind of terrible beastie . But I was attracted to him immediately , maybe because he was so unusual . I think what I picked up on was his dichotomy -- that beastiness and the underlying sensitivity that he has . I think that 's something that audiences relate to , you 're aware of all the toughness , but underneath you just know that there 's philosophy and this poetic , Celtic nature that speaks to people . Also his pain , his underlying sadness and the pain of his childhood ... when I first met him I think I connected with that . He played the Ayatollah Khomeini in a scene on `` Not The Nine O'Clock News '' and I played a demented fan singing a love song to him , it was in days when you could do stuff like that , I suppose . And then we did an interview , I pretending to be British TV personality Janet Street-Porter , with giant fake teeth which kept falling out
LONDON , England -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- They first met in the autumn of 1979 ; she playing the role of the lovelorn terrorist , he dressed as a rather sloppy Ayatollah Khomeini . Pamela Stephenson first met Billy Connolly on the set of a comedy show in 1979 . They married in Fiji in 1990 . It may not have been love at first sight on the set of British comedy show `` Not the Nine O'Clock News , '' but love , marriage and children eventually followed . Australian comedienne , now psychotherapist , Pamela Stephenson , describes being captivated by Billy Connolly 's wildman looks , his mane of grey hair and devil-may-care demeanor . She tells CNN 's Revealed about her first impressions of her husband , his unique ability to keep audiences entertained and what she learnt about his addictions and childhood abuse while writing his best-selling biography , `` Billy . '' CNN : Take us back to the beginning . How did you meet Billy Connolly ? Pamela Stephenson : I 'm not quite sure what Billy 's version of how we met is like because he was very drunk . I met