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According to unofficial biographer Jane Scovell and ex-daughter-in-law Patrice Chaplin, O'Neill was an alcoholic and became almost a recluse after returning permanently to Manoir de Ban in the late 1980s. [41]
Oona, who never recovered from the loss of her husband, lapsed into alcoholism and remained something of a tragic figure until her death of cancer in 1991. sources: Gelb, Arthur and Barbara.
Years later, when he could no longer balance the drunkenness and sobriety, he stopped drinking completely because it interfered with his creative process. Eugene O'Neill was an artist first...
Oona became an alcoholic and people often witnessed Chaplin ‘in a terrible rage and she’d run into her room and lock the door. He’d try and get her out and it was all hell.’ Meanwhile ...
Chaplin died on December 25 1977, aged 88. “It made a certain bleak sense,” Oona O’Neill said, “he always hated Christmas” — it reminded him of the workhouse.
At age 17, Oona, a Manhattan debutante spurned by the neglectful, alcoholic, famous father who had abandoned her when she was two, went to Hollywood to become an actress.
A few days after 18-year-old Oona O’Neill had described her eight-month acquaintance with Charles Chaplin as “entirely on the esoteric side,” the comedian packed sleek, sloe-eyed Oona into a...
