Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s Secrets Revealed Amid Case, Drug Claims

In 1992 — when John was pursuing Carolyn but still involved with actress Daryl Hannah, 65 — he received a letter from an unnamed friend warning him that Carolyn was a user, a partygoer, that she was after fame and fortune, Beller wrote. He confronted Carolyn at a restaurant and caused a scene. Days later he tried to call her.

‘And call. And call and call and call,” Beller wrote. Carolyn reportedly didn’t return those calls for a year, and in the meantime, she started to see Klein’s model change Baywatch actor Michael Bergin, 56.

She fueled John’s jealousy and refused to give up on Bergin once they reconnected – just as he had previously done with Hannah and another ex, model Julie Baker, 63. And when John proposed in 1995, Carolyn didn’t immediately accept.

According to Beller’s book, she told him, “I’ll think about it.”

But for all her playing on John’s insecurities, “She was a caregiver, and John really loved that about her,” friend Sasha Chermayeff told Caller. “But she also stood up to him when he was wrong.” It was a familiar dynamic for John. He once told a friend, “I’m attracted to strong-willed women like my mother,” wrote author Edward Klein The Kennedy Curse.