A vast archive of Marilyn Monroe's private diary entries and letters was recently discovered and is featured in the November issue of Vanity Fair, which came out Thursday.
That's right -- the November issue comes out seven days after September ends. No wonder print journalism is doomed.
Some excerpts include Monroe writing about her feelings toward Peter Lawford, JFK's brother-in-law. "(There is a) feeling of violence I've had lately about being afraid of Peter he might harm me, poison me, etc. why -- strange look in his eyes -- strange behavior. Peter wants to be a woman -- and would like to be me -- I think."
Monroe on her experience at Payne-Whitney's psychiatric ward: "There was no empathy at Payne-Whitney -- it had a very bad effect -- they asked me after putting me in a 'cell' (I mean cement blocks and all) for very disturbed depressed patients (except I felt I was in some kind of prison for a crime I hadn't committed). The inhumanity there I found archaic."
Monroe also wrote about the collapse of her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller. "Starting tomorrow I will take care of myself for that's all I really have and as I see it now have ever had. I think I hate it here because there is no love here anymore. If I lean close I'll see -- what I don't want to know -- tension, sadness, disappointment. When one wants to stay alone as my love (Arthur) indicates, the other must stay apart."