Couric also noted during the interview that Marx went to high school in Chicago with her fiancé, John Molner.
"I never particularly liked him," the singer cracked, quickly adding, "We weren't, like, pals, but I think we played on every sports team together. I was just jealous because he was one of the true brainiacs. We would copy John's papers."
Rhodes retired from acting to focus on their family full-time in the Chicago area. In addition to her iconic Dirty Dancing role, Rhodes also played John Travolta's love interest in the Saturday Night Fever sequel Staying Alive.
Marx has memorably talked about how he penned "Right Here Waiting" as a love letter to Rhodes, who was his girlfriend at the time and off shooting a movie while he was on the road. The song, the second single off of his 1989 album Repeat Offender, spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
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