[nmh]

I agree. She lost it some time ago. In those days, and maybe they still do ... Hollywood loaded them up with drugs and also their decadent lifestyle did the rest. She was unrestrained. Her mother was in an asylum. She also worried that she'd wind up that way too. Of course no dad was present ... . It's such a predicable pattern. It was a sad situation with a sadder ending.

[Niuhuru]

I think that she saw her self destruction as inevitable and did so as a result. I read a biography by Ted Jordon that debunked the murder theory. She was going to self destruct and she needed discipline and not indulgence, which happened because she was such a big moneymaker for the studio. She was too chaotic to sustain the discipline needed to survive in that industry and not go crazy. And she knew what she was doing since she let herself be exploited by the Hollywood machine. She did whatever she could to become a star. She was no victim. Her ambition was intense.