Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe called Jackie Kennedy to confess to an affair with John F Kennedy and was told ‘that’s great, I’ll move out and you have all the problems’, a new book has revealed.
In the book These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie, author Christopher Andersen says Monroe fully believed the president was going to leave his wife and marry her.
The book goes on to quote the late actor Pater Lawford, who married JFK’s sister Patricia in 1954, as saying Monroe called Jackie to confess to the affair and to tell her that her husband had already agreed to leave his family and set up home with the actress.
Jackie is said to have responded, ‘Marilyn, you’ll marry Jack, that’s great. And you’ll move into the White House and you’ll assume the responsibilities of First Lady, and I’ll move out and you’ll have all the problems.’
In the book These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie, author Christopher Andersen says Monroe fully believed the president was going to leave his wife and marry her.
The book goes on to quote the late actor Pater Lawford, who married JFK’s sister Patricia in 1954, as saying Monroe called Jackie to confess to the affair and to tell her that her husband had already agreed to leave his family and set up home with the actress.
Jackie is said to have responded, ‘Marilyn, you’ll marry Jack, that’s great. And you’ll move into the White House and you’ll assume the responsibilities of First Lady, and I’ll move out and you’ll have all the problems.’