“It wasn’t unusual for people at that time to take barbiturates and take whatever it took to get them through the day,” Taraborrelli explained to PEOPLE. A frantic Radziwill rushed over to Jackie’s apartment in New York City, where she flushed all of Jackie’s prescription drugs down the toilet. Jackie’s sister Lee Radziwill told friends that the former first lady once called her in the middle of the night and said she wanted to take pills and vodka so she wouldn’t have to wake up the next morning. “If I had just been a little more to one side, it could have been me,” she’d say, according to Taraborrelli. Jackie also blamed herself for her husband’s death and said she wished the bullets had struck her instead. “She often threatened suicide,” the author said. Randy Taraborrelli, - excerpted in this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday - the author describes how Jackie was “constantly crying” and confessed she was drinking too much in the months that followed her husband’s tragic death. The world always saw Jackie Kennedy as a model of strength and elegance - but now a new book reveals untold details about her inner struggle and deep depression following her husband’s assassination on Nov. Jackie Kennedy's Despair After JFK’s Assassination and How She Turned to Alcohol and Pills People Magazine has 3 articles about it in the meantime:
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