Brando then took off to film Mutiny on the Bounty, where he fell for co-star Tarita Teriipaia. When he returned home, Moreno swallowed a bunch of his sleeping pills in one gulp.
“I went to bed to die,” she wrote in the book. “This wasn’t a revenge suicide, but a consolation, an escape-from-pain death.”
A therapist asked them to not see each other again, and the two agreed. Brando went on to marry Teriipaia in 1962. They connected once again for professional reasons.
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