A Hard Life
Monroe was bounced around different foster homes and schools. Later, she revealed to the press that during this period, she was sexually abused. Even though the star never named the perpetrator in her lifetime, some biographers have suggested that the individual who had been responsible might have been the Atkinson family patriarch.
A Hard Life
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Feelings Of Being Unwanted
As her childhood went on, Monroe reportedly felt more and more unwanted. She told Life in 1962, “Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house, and there I’d sit all day and way into the night.” She added, “Up in front there with the screen so big – a little kid all alone.”
Feelings Of Being Unwanted
