Rita Moreno Admits She Tried Ending Her Life After Being Mistreated By Marlon Brando

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Rita Moreno had a complicated and often traumatic relationship with Marlon Brando, and now, she’s revealing even more intimate details from her time with the iconic actor. “Ultimately, it was exciting to be with Marlon.

Oh, my God, it was exciting,” she shared during Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” series with actress Jessica Chastain. “He was extraordinary in many, many ways, but he was a bad guy.

He was a bad guy when it came to women. I was such a different person then. I had all the makings of a doormat.” The One Day at a Time actress continued, “So whenever he lied, I would look at him and I’d say, ‘Marlon, look at me.’ And he’d start to grin this kind of — I don’t want to use the bad word — that poop-eating grin.

I could read him like a book and that’s why he loved me, and that’s why he mistreated me in so many ways.” Rita then revealed that it was during her relationship with the A Streetcar Named Desire actor that she “tried to end my life with pills in his house.