Shields writes in her memoir, There Was A Little Girl, "Liam wooed me with his brogue, his poetry and his s**ty choice of Pinot Grigio (wine)... I was so impressed with going out with a real movie star... We got serious after only three months. He asked me to marry him without a ring."
They spent Christmas together in New York that year (92) but then Neeson flew to Los Angeles and did not get in touch again for a while.
She expands on the story to People.com, adding, "He came back after the first time he left me and asked me to marry him again... This was before he started to do a play. And I said, 'No, no, no, because knowing you, you'll probably fall in love with your next leading lady and marry her, so I'm leaving myself out of this.' And I was dead right."
Neeson's co-star in the play was actress Natasha Richardson, who he married in 1994.
Richardson died in a freak skiing accident in 2009, leaving Neeson to raise their two sons alone.
Source:msn.com
