Susan Sarandon had an affair with 'extraordinary' David Bowie

Susan Sarandon recently admitted that she dated "extraordinary" music icon David Bowie in the 1980s.

While speaking to an American website, the 67-year-old Oscar winning actress said that it was an interesting phase and she still thought that Bowie, 67, was worth "idolizing", the Mirror reported.

She added that they parted ways since she didn't want to settle or have children at the time.

Sarandon, who's a mother-of-three, had her daughter with Italian filmmaker Franco Amurri, and two sons with former partener Tim Robbins, both of whom she had dated post Bowie.

Before dating the "rock star", with whom the actress had starred in 1986 British horror flick 'The Hunger', she was married to actor Chris Sarandon for 12 years before finally divorcing him in 1979.