Trigger warning: This article mentions domestic violence and substance use.
Fortunately, Freeman became almost like a second father to Bessette.
Instead, the opposite happened.
At times, they were downright rude.
“The meaner the stories in the press, the more Carolyn retreated into herself,” she added.
She got into a massive public fight with JFK Jr. Footage of the incident showed Carolyn and John shouting at each other.
Naturally, this set tongues wagging.
Unsurprisingly, Rodriguez created a breathtaking dress.
Try as hard as she might, she could not squeeze herself into it," Klein wrote.
Bessette finally made it to the church, where Kennedy had been waiting for over two hours.
Klein explains that, in many ways, Kennedy and Bessette wanted different things in life.
Their differences eventually led to them living apart, fueling rumors of an imminent breakup.
She didn’t provide him with any details and just said that she had a gut feeling.
“It seemed like there was no one else in my life, which there wasn’t.
And there was no one else in her life.
It just seemed like it was old times.
Like we were together again.
It was very surreal,” he wrote.
All these little annoyances accumulated, and eventually, an outburst would follow.
Per Edward Klein’s book, the couple’s disagreements sometimes got very heated and ended in physical altercations.
“John told friends that he felt trapped in an abusive relationship,” Klein writes in his book.
So unbearable did she find the intrusion that Bessette decided to quit her job.
Bessette, on the other hand, started overthinking every public move she made.
Unable to handle all the attention, she became a recluse, much to her husband’s dismay.
Bessette eventually turned to drugs as a means of escape.
Other sources claim Kennedy occasionally used the drug alongside his wife.
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Kennedy, still a rookie pilot, misjudged the bad weather, and the flight ended in tragedy.
So Bessette said she would, but on the condition that her sister came with.
Bad weather is widely believed to have been the cause of the crash.
At the same time, the media was looking for someone to blame.
Klein learned that Bessette got a last-minute pedicure before the flight.
She reportedly asked the pedicurist to redo her nails three times before she was happy with the result.
This made her and the rest of her party late for their flight.
Others blamed Kennedy for the tragedy.
