Marilyn Monroe ‘screamed for help’ as RFK ‘held a pillow over her’

After the harrowing encounter with RFK, Patterson writes, “Marilyn lies in bed with her white phone. She calmed herself down with some pills. Talking to friends might make her feel better.”

Monroe “holds it together” as her former stepson Joe DiMaggio Jr. calls.” But by the time she called her friend and hairdresser Sydney Guilaroff after 8 p.m., “she’s wandering.”

“‘Danger… betrayal… men in high places… clandestine love affairs,’ she says, before finally declaring, ‘I know a lot of secrets about the Kennedys. Dangerous ones,'” she allegedly told Guilaroff.

Monroe was supposed to go to Lawford’s house for dinner, but he told the guests, “Marilyn’s not coming, she’s not feeling well.”

“Now Lawford is alarmed by the varying quality of her voice on the phone. He yells at her, desperately trying to get her attention,” Patterson wrote. “Marilyn kindly replies, ‘Say goodbye to Pat, say goodbye to Jack and say goodbye to yourself, because you’re a nice guy.’

“Is that him?” asks the author. Because “Silence is his only answer. Marilyn is too far gone.”

Monroe was found dead in her home in Brentwood, California on August 4, 1962, with the cause of death determined as acute barbiturate poisoning.