Rita Moreno made shocking statements about her love affair with Marlon Brando. The iconic Puerto Rican actress reveals that the actor mistreated her and she tried to commit suicide.
Rita Moreno shared sad memories of her love affair with Marlon Brando. reports Magazine, During a conversation with actress Jessica Chastain for Variety's "Actors on Actors" series, the 90-year-old West Side Story star made strong remarks about the late Hollywood actor.
Moreno said that Brando "was a bad guy" in his dealings with women. The Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner met the legendary actor when she was 22 years old. Was 1954 on the set of the film Désirée about the life of Napoleon. There she began a sentimental relationship of almost 8 years.
"It was exciting to be with Marlon. My God, it was exciting!" Moreno said. "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," she reflected.
The actress confesses that she even tried to commit suicide during that turbulent love relationship. When he lied to her, she would ask him to look at her and he would smile, Moreno said. "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. I tried to end my life by taking pills in his house. That's how I tried to do it."
Years after her breakup, the actors starred in the movie The Night of the Following Day in 1969. Then, Moreno says that Brando — who died in 2004 at the age of 80 — tried to convince her to get back together with him.
"The interesting thing is that he wanted to renew it," she says of her love affair. "I was already married. I had a beautiful daughter, Fernanda. He was ready to try again," she recalls. "I didn't want that, but he did. I think he lost a big part of himself. His good door, the good Marlon that Rita loved. It was very complicated," he concludes about his union with the star of A Streetcar Named Desire.
In 2017, Moreno confessed to PEOPLE that Marlon was the man she had been most attracted to in her entire life and that she kept a photo of the actor from The Godfather in her bedroom.
"He was a great love in my life," she said of Brando. Of course, she clarified that the great love of her life was her husband, Leonard Gordon, whom she married in 1965.
