“Once I came to America, I perceived that it was not a good thing to be Hispanic,” she said. Moreno also spoke with Hoda about her journey from a “fearful” little girl living in Harlem, New York, to the “ebullient” woman she describes herself as today. I look at my daughter, and I think, ‘Look what might not have happened.'” “I was close,” Moreno said “God, I’m glad that’s in the past. “And I’m looking in the cabinet mirror all the time and saying, ‘See? That wasn’t so difficult.’ It was just horrific.”īrando’s assistant found Moreno in time to get help after Brando had asked the woman to check on her. “And I finally opened the bottle and put I think about 10 pills in my hand and swallowed them. This is going to be your last breathing moment,'” she said. “It took a long time because I thought, ‘If you’re going to do this, this is forever. She said she stared at a bottle of sleeping pills in Brando’s bathroom medicine cabinet for almost a half hour before deciding to take them. I just can’t do this.’ I felt so humiliated.” “I was in his bed, and I thought, “I can’t do this to myself anymore. “He was doing ‘Mutiny on the Bounty,’ and he went to work,” she said.

Moreno said the deception was “the straw that broke the camel’s back.” “So having said that, I just got disappointed for the last time. If you keep letting them disappoint you and hurt you, then there’s something wrong with this relationship, including yourself. You let things happen, all right? People aren’t just mean to you. “But let’s put things in proper perspective. She said she overdosed on pills to take her life after a “deception” by Brando. However, there was a dark side to her relationship with Brando that nearly ended in her death. Why is it sexy? Because I always think that a man who can be fast on his feet with humor can protect me.” “And (Marlon) was really also a very interesting man. Aye-yay, you know, oh wow, that was incredible. “My husband was the love of my life,” she said. The two had a magnetic attraction to one another that led to dramatic highs and lows. “Which of course is so amusing, because one loony telling the other, ‘You’re sick, you know, get help.'” “And the interesting thing, it was Marlon Brando with whom I had an eight-year, on-off relationship, who said to me one day, ‘You really need help. “The only thing that saved my life - I know it - was psychotherapy,” she told Hoda. The Puerto Rican actor was struggling with the stereotypical roles and predatory executives permeating Hollywood when she and Brando started dating. Moreno and Brando, who died in 2004, had a tempestuous relationship in the 1950s and 1960s that also included acting in multiple films together. The 90-year-old “West Side Story” legend spoke with Hoda about her on-and-off relationship with the Hollywood legend as part of a wide-ranging interview for a bonus episode of Hoda’s “Making Space” podcast released on Monday. Rita Moreno considers her late husband, Lenny Gordon, of 45 years the love of her life, while former boyfriend Marlon Brando gets a different description. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 80, text HOME to 741741 or go to for additional resources. If you or someone you know is at risk of suicide, please call the U.S.

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