Barbra Streisand can’t recall certain NSFW details regarding her fling with Warren Beatty.

In an interview with The New Yorker published on Saturday, June 14, the Funny Girl star spoke about an anecdote from her 2023 memoir My Name Is Barbra that involved the Dick Tracy actor.

In her star-studded book packed with memories from her storied career, Streisand, 83, couldn’t remember if she had slept with Beatty, 88.

“I know I slept in the bed with him, but I can’t remember if we actually had penetration,” Streisand said. “I swear to God, I can’t. There are certain things I block out.”

After the interviewer called “B.S.” on her not being able to remember but noting that Beatty probably does, Streisand doubled down on her lapse in memory and said they’ve remained friends since.

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“But I know we’re still friends. Every year on my birthday, he calls me and we have a wonderful talk about our lives, our children, and so forth,” Streisand told the publication. “So we’re still friends. I met him when I was fifteen years old, and he was twenty-one, I think.”

In the close-to-1,000 pages of My Name Is Barbra, Streisand recalled her first impression of him, when he was 21 and she was 16 while they were both at the Clinton Playhouse in Connecticut. She wrote that he was “tall with movie-star looks, and women were already falling at his feet.”

She also wrote about being interviewed by Playboy in 1977 and being asked if she had been “romantically linked” with Beatty. “I said blithely, ‘One of my flings,’ ” Streisand wrote.

“I was just tossing off a reply, playing the role of a jaded woman of the world.”

The Hello, Dolly! actress said that she and Beatty “go back a long way” to summer stock theater, and that “there’s some water under that bridge.”

“Recently, we were on the phone talking politics and who knows what else when he said, ‘I remember why we broke up.’ I said, ‘When were we together?’ ” Streisand recalled hanging up and then asking herself if she slept with the Bonnie and Clyde star. “I kind of remember. I guess I did. Probably once.”

In 2001, Beatty gave a speech when Streisand was honored with AFI’s Life Achievement Award, saying she had “that one-of-a-kind mix of intelligence, critical skepticism, and eroticism that we all know and love so well” when they met.

Streisand was taken aback by his using the word “eroticism.”

Ultimately, Streisand said she and Beatty were “friends for life.”

Streisand has been married to James Brolin since 1998. Beatty has been married to Annette Bening since 1992.