She scored with Ford

IANTHE McGuinn tells the truth in her memoir “In the Wings,” about her marriage to the Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn.

She even includes the embarrassing story of her “onenight stand with the contractor,” as she puts it. The contractor was

Harrison Ford (inset), a then-struggling actor who was renovating houses between sparse guest parts on TV shows.

It was 1970, and the Byrds were riding high with hits such as “Mr. Tambourine Man,” “Turn! Turn! Turn!” and “Eight Miles High.”

“Roger had started an affair with my best friend on the East Coast. I found out on my birthday,” Ianthe told me. Ford, who was remodeling the kitchen in the McGuinns’ Sherman Oaks, Calif., home, came into the living room just as the shaken Ianthe hung up the phone. “I told him what I’d just found out, and his response was, ‘Well, how about that!’ ” A few weeks later they bumped into each other at a club. “When he found out I was single, he paid me a night visit. He turned up totally drunk.” She didn’t turn him away. Last year, a month before she died, Carrie Fisher revealed she had an affair with Ford during the filming of 1977’s “Star Wars.” Ianthe, who worked as a registered nurse and raised two kids as a single mom, acknowledges there’s some truth to the saying “If you can remember the 1960s, you weren’t really there.”

“But I did remember,” Ianthe said. “And the journals I’d written helped.”

“In the Wings” — which also tells of hanging out with The Beatles and how Marlon Brando hit on her — is out Tuesday from New Haven Publishing.

Ford’s reps did not respond to requests for comment.