London - Jackie Kennedy was so grief-stricken after her husband’s assassination that she asked a priest if she would be separated from him in heaven if she committed suicide, according to a new biography.
She later told Father Richard McSorley that she wanted to take her own life and be like Marilyn Monroe, who had an affair with John F Kennedy and died the year before him in an apparent suicide.
She said: “I was glad that Marilyn Monroe got out of her misery.”
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story, by US author Barbara Leaming, also reveals that she could not even look at a picture of her husband’s face, and the only one she had was of him with his back turned.
According to Leaming, Mrs Kennedy spent the months after the murder in November 1963 drinking heavily, and she would wake up screaming if she managed to sleep.
She even said her two young children, Caroline and John, would be better off on their own, saying: “I’m no good to them. I’m so bleeding inside.”
According to Leaming, Mrs Kennedy’s symptoms suggest she was suffering from a form of post-traumatic stress disorder. - Daily Mail