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.' THE NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY, Rita Moreno, Marlon Brando, 1968 (Courtesy Everett Collection) '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.

Marlon Brando And Rita Moreno In 'Desiree' (20th Century-Fox / Getty Images)

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