The protagonist of the original version of "West Side Story" was found dead in 1981 after falling from the yacht The Splendor. The interpreter was terrified of water and from a very young age, she knew that she had to stay away from the "dark waters" because that was where her finiteness would lie.
From a very young age, Natalie Zacharenko, known worldwide as Natalie Wood, was fascinated by clairvoyance. On one occasion, the child prodigy visited a psychic to find out what the future would hold for her in the workplace, and she got a big surprise. The woman foreshadowed that Natalie would become a very beautiful and successful woman, but she warned her to stay away from the "dark waters".
With Oscar nominations and leading roles in great movie classics like West Side Story, Rebel Without a Cause, and Splendor in the Grass; and unparalleled beauty, the first prediction came true quickly and, to Natalie's joy, she kept up with time.
Her second omen, she seemed to elude him until on November 29, 1981, her luck took an unexpected and deadly turn.
For that dOn the actress and her husband Robert Wagner decided to go for a ride on their yacht The Splendor (named after one of Wood's great classics). Next to them was Christopher Walken, a friend of the couple and with whom she had just filmed Brainstorm.
It was in this space that the tragedy occurred that claimed the life of Natalie Wood, who died when she fell from the yacht in a situation that was never entirely clear.
In fact, it was in 2011, thirty years after her death, that the police reopened the case after the publication of a book by the writer Marti Rully in which it was assured that in the death of the actress, her husband was fully involved.
In 2018, the investigators reclassified her death as "suspicious" but without confirming, yet, the cause of the death and Wagner's participation.
For his part, Christopher Walken never referred to the case and prefers to avoid questions that have to do with the moment of which he says he does not know or remember anything.
A year before she died, Natalie Wood referred to the terror that water produced in her, so it is clear that someone must have pushed her into the sea because she would never have done it on her own.
"She has always scared me of water, it still produces it to me today. Dark water, seawater, river water, anyone," she said.
An unresolved mystery, a vision, and a declaration that today works as an omen, the end of Natalie Wood is worthy of a Hollywood story, one of those that she knew how to star in her most splendor era.
