Anything can be left up to interpretation because like many other people said only God knows what really happened. I am not sure what to believe about Christina or Joan's relationship to be honest. Joan had her meals delivered in and busied herself writing thousands of notes, for which she had become famous over the years. Along with her psychiatrist and perhaps a half dozen others, she was one of the few. When she slept, it was behind bolts in her bedroom, with a pale pink night-light burning.ĭuring those months of self-imposed exile, Doris saw a great deal of Joan Crawford. To reach her, friends were given a number to call, leave a message and wait for her to call back. For the last 18 months she had refused to set foot outside her apartment. A variety of exotic locks, latches and alarms were installed. For months her 22nd-floor five-room apartment was under guard.
“You won’t know where or when, but I will get you.” Terrified, she called in the police and the FBI. Unbeknownst to even some of her closest friends, Joan had received an anonymous phone call in the winter of 1975. Her heart had been broken, and she died from a lethal dose of loneliness-and fear. The coroner’s office said this great star died of heart failure, and in a way they were right. In fact, Princess had not been outside the building for over a year, much less separated from her adoring mistress. The next day Joan sent her beloved pet Shih Tzu, Princess, away to be taken care of by friends in the country. Just two days prior to her death, on Mother’s Day, she told Doris she spent the day alone none of her four adopted children came to call. (Years after his death in 1959, she still set a place for him at the dinner table.) Starting in February, she began “cleaning out,” sending Dorsi and a few other friends household items that she said she would no longer need. Yet there is much evidence that she was preparing to die.Īmong the many “coincidences”: Her death occurred on May 10, the 22nd anniversary of her marriage to her fourth and last husband, the late Pepsi chairman Alfred Steele-the only man, she said, she really loved. She was cremated, according to her wishes, and no autopsy was performed to see if she might have taken an overdose of sleeping pills. One of the few who knew was showbiz correspondent Doris Lilly, a close confidante and neighbor in the Manhattan apartment building where Crawford lived since 1967.ĭid Joan Crawford take her own life? As an experienced reporter and Joan’s friend, Lilly said that she can only conclude that she did. But there was no accounting for the eerie last 18 months of her 70-odd years. When screen legend Joan Crawford died in 1977, the obits of Joan Crawford chronicled her tough, traumatic youth, her 81 movies and her driving second career as a director of the Pepsi-Cola Company.
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