The legendary star of the movie 'Breakfast at Tiffany's,' Audrey Hepburn, had a 'hellish' private life hidden behind her glamorous life, revealed to the world through her son's memoir.
According to a Daily Mail report on the 28th (local time), Audrey Hepburn's eldest son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer, detailed the painful marriage and private anguish his mother endured in his recently published memoir, Intimate Audrey.
Sean said his mother lived her life in constant 'fear of abandonment.' The incident when her father abandoned the family when she was 6 became an indelible trauma for her and left her unbearably vulnerable in relationships with men.
Her marriage to her first husband, Mel Ferrer, was a decade-long nightmare under 'perfectionistic control.' Sean said, "My mother later confessed that that period was 'two years in hell' and the worst time of her life." In particular, shocking anecdotes revealed that Mel Ferrer did not welcome Audrey's pregnancies for the sake of her career and even forced her to work despite the risk of miscarriage.
But the greater tragedy began in her marriage to her second husband, Italian doctor Andrea Dotti. According to Sean's revelations, Dotti routinely brought other women into the couple's bedroom whenever Audrey was away and cheated on her. When the housemaid confessed through tears, "Whenever the mistress is not here, he brings other women to this bed and even serves them breakfast," Audrey only paled and smoked with trembling hands.
Under repeated infidelity and betrayal, Audrey eventually collapsed. Sean recalled the harrowing moment in 1978 when he was 17 and found his mother collapsed from a drug overdose at their Swiss home. After being given a stomach pump and waking up, Audrey reportedly cried and told her son, "I didn't try to kill myself; I was in so much pain that I just wanted to lose consciousness for a while," adding to the sorrow.
After two divorces and several miscarriages that left her battered, Audrey Hepburn was finally saved by Dutch actor Robert Wolders. Sean said, "My mother was finally able to live as her whole self without anyone's coercion through her last husband."
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