Well, the husband ( a camera man on one of her films) was at the time of their initial dalliance still married to a woman called Vera.
Vera was not very happy when her hubby left her for lippy Roberts and I think wasn't all that co-operative in enabling her hubby to get a quickie divorce (fair play to her, I think..), So gobby Roberts wore a t-shirt at a press conference denouncing " A low Vera" (a pun on aloe vera - that plant used in shampoo etc) and publicly humiliated. Not nice.