JFK Jr. faced marital problems before his death

Carolyn was back with her old cocaine and partygoers from her days working for designer Calvin Klein. She stayed out all night and even gave her party members the keys to the attic she shared with her husband.

John came home one evening to find Carolyn in a shocking situation with four of her male friends.

“John found the men cuddling with his wife on a futon under a duvet in the guest room,” a friend said.

“He angrily shouted at Carolyn, ‘You’re a cokehead!’ and she shot back, “You’re a fg!” Then she led her giggling friends in a mocking chant of “Fg!” Fg!’ with her husband.”

The taunt was nothing unusual. Klein said another friend told him, “Carolyn had a trash mouth. She always called John a FG.”

Later, Carolyn tried to explain away the compromising situation by telling John, “They’re all strange!”

But John’s instincts told him otherwise, and he later discovered that many of her friends were bisexual.

His suspicions that she was cheating on him mushroomed when he noticed her cell phone bill included a number she had called dozens of times.

“I called the number out of curiosity,” he later told a friend, “and discovered it was an antique store we had visited.”

The store was owned by a man – the type Carolyn found attractive – sources say. John’s suspicions were later cruelly confirmed when he walked into a party where Carolyn had been roughing it for hours.

“I walked from room to room looking for her,” he told his friend. “In a back room, under a fan and near some potted palm trees, I saw her dancing very slowly and close to this man. All I could do was stare. I knew immediately who it was. They didn’t see me. I had to get out of there before I collapsed and embarrassed myself.”

Sources said Carolyn had met the man while shopping for antiques and there had been an instant attraction and she began seeing him secretly in his store office after hours. “The next morning, when the staff went back to work, it was a mess, with pillows everywhere and empty bottles of Veuve Cliquot champagne,” said another friend.

Heartbroken, John tried to win back his cheating wife. “He told me he put his arms around Carolyn and she froze,” a friend said. “He said, ‘I realized she didn’t want me to touch her because she had someone else.'”

The friend added that when John confronted Carolyn about the man, she laughed at him and told him, “I’m not minding your business, please not mine.” As hurtful as that was, her relationship with Bergin was a dagger in John’s heart, sources said.

In The Kennedy CurseKlein writes that Carolyn has rekindled her relationship with the underwear model. In his book, Klein reported that Bergin ultimately decided not to see Carolyn again because he “respected the marriage vows.”

He writes, “He wasn’t comfortable continuing a relationship with a married woman. But Carolyn was obsessed with him. And one day she went up the fire escape to his apartment and broke the windows to get in.”

A friend said he was being led out of Bergin’s apartment in New York’s Greenwich Village when there was a buzz on the intercom. As he left, he saw Carolyn hiding under the stairs.

“As John later told a friend, he had been struck by lightning,” Klein writes. “He found it unthinkable that a woman would choose another man over him. It took him time to recover from this devastating blow.”

Bergin confessed to Klein that he and Carolyn had a stormy and passionate romance.

“Carolyn and I had a very intense love for each other,” Bergin told the author. “I know in my heart that she still loved me even after she married John Kennedy. Some things just never end.’

But John was still desperately trying to save his marriage, Klein writes. “He convinced Carolyn to see a psychiatrist. He made sure she took her daily dose of antidepressants. He took her to exotic hideaways for romantic vacations. In March 1999, he began attending marriage counseling with her.”

But his efforts were in vain. “Four months later, on July 12 (just a week before their tragic deaths), Carolyn stormed out of the marriage counselor’s office when the therapist brought up the subject of her drug addiction,” Klein writes.

He added: ‘Then, in a supreme act of rejection, Carolyn started sleeping in a spare room that John had been using to store his gym equipment.’ Humiliated by his wife’s claims that they were cheating with other men and her refusal to sleep with him, John left their attic and moved into a $2,000-a-night suite at the Stanhope hotel.

“John’s friends told him, ‘Get out of this marriage. She hates the ground you walk on and one day you will be dead,'” one friend said.

“But John believed he could save the marriage until the end. He even tried to convince himself that Carolyn was so exhausted from coke that she had made up everything about her cheating. But that failed.’ The friend added: ‘Poor John died convinced that Carolyn had fooled him into cheating with other men.’