Marilyn Monroe Was Doomed to Struggle For a Simple Reason, Star's Husband Believes

Summary

• Marilyn Monroe remains one of the most famous actresses of all time.
• The actress had an inner struggle to put her past behind her.
• Monroe's difficult childhood scarred her for life.

While cinema may seem like a rather mundane thing today, it is important to remember that it has only been around for about a century. Born as an art form in the early 1900s, film gained recognition with the establishment of Hollywood, which further developed the field. And it was then that the term celebrity was coined.

Today, when we think of classic cinema, names like Charlie Chaplin, Marlon Brando, Bette Davis, and Judy Garland come to mind. But there's one actress whose popularity lives on decades after her tragic death. Marilyn Monroe remains one of the most beloved celebrities of all time, whose life and career continue to fascinate generations of viewers and filmmakers. Few people know, however, that behind the façade of celebrity was a very unhappy woman whose unhappiness had a simple cause.

Marilyn Monroe's Last Husband on Her Personality

'We were two parts, however remote, of this society, this life. One was sensuous and life-loving it seemed while in the center of it there was that darkness and tragedy that I didn't know the dimensions of at that time,' Arthur Miller, Marilyn's third husband, described her in an interview.

According to Miller, Marilyn Monroe's depression and severe mood swings were a result of her difficult and hectic childhood. The actress' early experiences shaped her personality and left an indelible mark.

'Basically, her struggle was a psychological struggle against abandonment, against abuse. In our terms today, she would have been thought of as an abused child. The psychological damage that that creates is very well-known. And she struggled in a lifetime and lost against that damage. That's fundamentally what it was,' Monroe's last husband added.

Marilyn's Tumultuous Childhood

Born to Gladys Pearly Baker in 1926, Norma Jean was placed in foster care and saw her mother only on weekends. The future legendary actress moved in with her mother at the age of seven, but the two lived together for only a year as Gladys suffered a severe mental breakdown in 1934 and was committed to an institution where she remained for the rest of her life.

As a result, little Norma had little contact with her mother and must have suffered from an abandonment complex. More importantly, the actress is believed to have been sexually abused as a child, which also took a toll on her mental well-being. Despite her enormous success and the adoration of her fans, Marilyn was never able to deal with this damage and died in 1962 of suicidal medication poisoning.

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