America's beloved 70s TV mom who had a secret romance with her on-screen husband was spotted in LA... can you guess who?

She was erstwhile celebrated arsenic agrarian America's mom, managing a household and raising a gaggle of 7 kids successful a beloved 1970s sitcom. 

Her archetypal sanction was meant she was often mistaken for a male, which resulted successful her being billed arsenic 'Miss' aboriginal successful her career.  

The histrion grabbed 3 Emmy awards arsenic Lead Actress successful a Drama aft being nominated six times for her lukewarm and charismatic performance.

Later successful her career, she appeared successful iconic soap operas including All My Children, One Life to Live, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless.

She besides revealed exclusively to DailyMail.com that she had a concealed romance with her on-screen husband. 

Can you conjecture who she is?

It's Michael Learned! 

Now 85 years old, Learned was spotted connected a uncommon outing successful Los Angeles with her 4th husband, John Doherty, who she joined successful 1991.

The histrion got retired of her grey sedan carrying a valet summons and canned seltzer.

Learned smiled arsenic she talked to a doorman portion different valet approached the car to determination it to different location. 

She sported a comfy-casual look with a brace of grey joggers, a navy bluish speckled shirt, a brace of bluish slide-on sneakers, a airy grey canvas coat, a stylish achromatic purse with golden hardware and matching dainty golden jewelry.

Her hubby Doherty wore glasses with achromatic frames, a greenish cardigan and a khaki brownish shirt.

Learned has achieved her happily ever aft with hubby Doherty, a California-based lawyer.

But she had to onslaught retired 3 times to execute it. 

She archetypal tied the knot with Canadian-American histrion Peter Donat – who passed distant successful 2018 – erstwhile she was lone 17 years aged and helium was 28. 

Together they appeared successful assorted roles astatine the American Conservatory Theater successful San Francisco, California, and shared 3 sons. But their matrimony dissolved aft 16 years.

Her 2nd matrimony to Glenn Chadwick, a stagehand, successful 1974 lone lasted 2 years earlier she histrion and screenwriter William Parker becme hubby fig 3. They  divorced successful 1989.

But it was her archetypal divided from Donat that would specify her acting career. 

Since the brace had acted unneurotic astatine the San Francisco theater, Learned told the Archive of American Television that she had a feeling she wouldn't beryllium welcomed backmost aft her divorce. 

Making the travel down to Los Angeles successful hunt of enactment with lone a fewer items to her sanction and a terrible intoxicant addiction, she was told astir an accidental to beryllium successful the tv drama, The Waltons – a amusement that features an Appalachian household navigating the Great Depression.  

Initially, she had nary involvement successful the show, wanting to enactment connected signifier instead. She adjacent showed up to the surface trial hungover. 

But arsenic soon arsenic the country began with her aboriginal castmates, Richard Thomas and Ralph Waite, she rapidly recovered her bushed and fto her acting chops instrumentality over. 

Convinced she hadn't gotten the part, Learned said she enactment the audition successful the backmost of her mind. But 4 days aboriginal she got the telephone – she was going to beryllium the parent of America. 

And Learned's surface beingness arsenic the matriarch earned her 3 Emmys arsenic Lead Actress successful a Drama aft being nominated six times.

Learned told Dailymail.com, connected the 5th day of her on-screen hubby Ralph Waite's death, that the duo 'were successful love' off-screen and adjacent went connected a date. 

But the pragmatic brace decided during their archetypal intimate gathering that they astir apt shouldn't prosecute a romance arsenic it could ruin the celebrated amusement and 'get messy'.

Instead, Learned said their instant chemistry turned into a lifelong relationship and Waite became her 'spiritual husband.'

She besides revealed however Waite 'saved her life' arsenic her dense drinking – chiefly bourbon and vino – ran retired of power during the aboriginal years of the CBS series.

The histrion stayed connected the amusement for 7 seasons, reappearing for play 8 concisely nether the guise of her quality processing tuberculosis and entering a sanatorium successful Arizona.

But she returned for 4 retired of the six sequel movies aft the amusement ended. 

During the 80s, she appeared successful the films Touched by Love, Power and Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. 

She kept up with her fledging tv vocation and was nominated for 2 Emmys, winning one, for her relation arsenic Nurse Mary Benjamin successful the critically acclaimed play bid Nurse, which ran from 1981 to 1982.

As the decades passed, the histrion transitioned to soaps and appeared successful All My Children and One Life to Live arsenic Judge Turner, General Hospital arsenic Shirley Smith and The Young and the Restless arsenic matriarch Katherine Chancellor.

Recently, Learned returned to tv successful a streaming work format to prima arsenic the infamous serial slayer Jeffrey Dahmer's grandma successful the Netflix bid Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.

Learned was calved successful Washington D.C. and raised connected a workplace successful Connecticut for the archetypal 10 years of her life. She was the eldest of six sisters.

She comes from a household of diplomats arsenic her begetter Bruce worked for the State Department and her maternal gramps worked successful embassies.