Rivers of ink have flowed about the alleged love affair between Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe and United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, but now a new book claims that the actress called the president's wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, to talk about it .
The rumored love story between JFK and Monroe is the focus of the new book by American journalist Christopher Andersen.
In "These Precious Days: Jack's Last Year with Jackie" Andersen
assures that Marilyn came to talk about her relationship with President
Kennedy with his wife, according to various US media on Tuesday.
Monroe,
whose death was 51 years old this Monday, was so excited about her idyll
that she even called the then first lady to tell her that her husband,
President Kennedy, had promised her that he was going to get married with
her.
Andersen writes that when Jackie first entered the White House,
she feared not seeing her husband because of her duties as president.
However,
sharing a home and office led Jackie to describe her years in the White
House as "the happiest time" of her life.
But Andersen assures that the former first lady was aware of
the existence of all the women with whom JFK had had relationships outside
of marriage.
The writer assures that Jackie Kennedy "turned a
blind eye" as long as he did not expose her publicly, but he also affirms
that of her, among all the adventures of her husband, the one that hurt him
the most was the one that she kept with Monroe.
"Largely because Marilyn was a time bomb that could explode at any moment, causing a scandal that would destroy her husband's reputation, destroy her marriage and expose her to public ridicule," the writer argues.
