Insecurity about her own acting skills was one of the reasons she would lash out on set. Winger admitted she “took it out on everybody.”

She also didn’t shy away from revealing how she has always felt about the film, “It’s no secret that I didn’t love ‘An Officer and A Gentleman’ then, and I certainly don’t love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent.”

In a 2021 interview with the Telegraph, Winger addressed her infamous comment that Gere was a “brick wall costar,” stating, “I probably could have come up with something nicer.” 

However, she claims Gere has never let her forget the insult, “[When] I run into him he says, ‘Are you still saying those things about me?'”, she admitted.

Gere has never publicly responded to Winger’s claims.