KallMeKris

Oh my God.

But again, who can blame her?

Like everything she's been through, it's horrible.

But the therapy couldn't outpace what was happening underneath.

And Finstad traced the habit back to age 15.

And the barbiturate second all became the constant she reached for at bedtime.

And as late as 1978, she admitted in an interview with Ladies Home Journal that Seconal was still part of her nightly routine.

And three times between 1961 and 1966, the pills nearly killed her.

The first was the overdose that landed her in the hospital the night she discovered Wagner's affair.

And the second came in November of 1964, and her stomach was pumped at a Hollywood hospital.

but nobody outside her inner circle ever knew.

And the third in January of 1966 was different because there are two versions of what triggered it specifically.

And Warren G. Harris's biography tells it this way, which is Beattie showed up unannounced trying to persuade her to star in Bonnie and Clyde.

And instead she swallowed a fistful of barbiturates.

And either way, doctors saved her life at a Hollywood hospital.

And afterwards, she told Lana the truth that she hadn't been trying to survive.

And Lana's memoir tells a different story about the trigger.

And she wrote that during the production of This Property is Condemned in 1965, Natalie had a passionate affair with the film's director, Sidney Pollack, and Pollack broke it off and Natalie fell apart.

And according to Lana, it was Pollock's rejection, not Beattie or Wagner, that pushed her sister to that point.

So three overdoses in five years.