10 famous people with truly tragic lives
From José Guadalupe Posada to Keanu Reeves suffered depression, alcoholism and the death of their loved ones ...
We tend to think that celebrities have no problems, that they go through life with their millions, their parties and their perfect moments, but not all characters have the fairy tale life that we would like to think they have, come on! Seeing them almost seems to make us believe that happiness exists.
Well no, this count is not about that, it is the perfect material for a sad and depressing episode of the worst melodrama series that exists and tells us that nothing ever is what it seems.
The personalities of this note vary greatly in what they do or what they are known for, but all, EVERYONE, have suffered tragic lives ranging from being inmates of a concentration camp, to losing a child, to seeing the suicide of your dearest people or sink into depression and become homeless.
This account of De10.mx will show you that we all go through bad times and sometimes, those who least imagine it are also experiencing it.
1: Frida Kahlo
At the age of 18 Frida suffered an accident that forced her to a long convalescence, thanks to which she learned to paint and which influenced the complex psychological world that is reflected in her works. In 1929 she married the muralist Diego Rivera, three years later, she suffered an abortion that affected her sensitivity and inspired two of her most valued works. During her life she went through serious health crises, she lived the hell of a stormy relationship where infidelity was constant, she suffered terrible betrayals in addition to knowing that her success was overshadowed by that of her husband.
2: Horacio Quiroga
Uruguayan storyteller based in Argentina, he is one of the greatest storytellers in Latin America. His work is modernist and avant-garde, but tragedies marked his life. In 1898, he met the first love of her life, María Jurkowski, whose relationship was not materialized due to the refusal of her parents to accept the young woman's origin. Years later, Quiroga witnessed the suicide of his stepfather. In 1901 he lost two of his brothers Prudencio and Pastora due to typhoid fever. That same year, his friend Federico Ferrando told him that he had to fight a duel with Germán Paipini, a journalist from whom he had received terrible criticism. Before the duel, Quiroga checked the weapon, but a shot went off that killed Ferrando, the writer spent four days in prison.
By 1906, Quiroga fell in love with one of his students, Ana María Cires, to whom he dedicated his first novel Historia de un amor turbio. The storyteller married Ana despite the opposition of her parents, who went to live with them. After giving birth to two children, Ana committed suicide, and Horacio fell in love many years later with another of her students, Ana María Palacio, but her parents took her away from her forcing him to renounce that love.
In 1932, Horacio married María Elena Bravo, his daughter's school companion, but after a series of political changes in their country, they had to move to the jungle, where the relationship with María became difficult, violence was common until 1937, when the writer, after many ignored symptoms, was diagnosed with prostate cancer, which led him to take cyanide in February of that same year.
3: Edgar Allan Poe
From 1815 to 1820, Poe lived with his adoptive parents, as he lost the biologicals when he was only two years old. In 1827 he attended the University of Virginia, from where he was expelled due to his fondness for gambling and alcohol, for which reason he was also dismissed from the West Point Academy. In 1836 he married his first cousin Virginia Clemm, they were a happy couple until she died of tuberculosis. Poe was mired in poverty, he had no job, and his book sales were very low. Sunk in depression and alcoholism, Poe died in unclear circumstances. He today he is the master of terror.
4: Roman Polanski
Two years before the Second World War began, Roman Polanski's family returned to Poland from France, his parents were in a concentration camp as they were Jews, his mother died in Auschwitz. Despite his fame for his film work, his personal life has affected his performance, in 1969 his wife Sharon Tate became a victim of The Charles Manson Family, but it is believed that she was physically abused by Roman. In 1977 Samantha Geimer, who at that time was only 13 years old, was raped, an act that cut short his career in the United States and has kept him in exile since 1974 when she filmed Chinatown.
During his childhood, Roman was held in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, survived the Holocaust, but had to live as a beggar on the streets, escaping the Nazis and posing as the son of other families.
5: Marlon Brando
Her private life was stormy from childhood, her mother suffered from bipolar disorder, and Marlon witnessed how the men he associated with abused her. Despite his physique, the actor flattered himself since childhood, he was expelled from a military academy due to his bad behavior. He had a violent relationship with his father, who never recognized his achievements. He was married three times, but in 1990 he suffered one of the hardest moments of his life, the boyfriend of his daughter was murdered at the family residence on Mullholland Drive; Christian, his other son was charged with the murder; Cheyenne, the actor's daughter could not bear the situation and committed suicide five years later. Brando passed away after years of living wandering.
6: José Guadalupe Posada
His biographers assure that the talent for engravings was a natural gift for Posada, but he always fought against his family that did not support him in his dream. With his talent, he was a chronicler of some newspapers, but because he was a strong critic of the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz he began to be censored. Posada never had in life the recognition that later was given to his work, in the midst of poverty in Tepito, the artist's body was found alone, in a neighborhood room. He was mired in alcoholism after the death of his wife and son. The remains of the one born in Aguascalientes were thrown into the common grave, where they were lost forever.
7: Stephen Hawking
In 1963, Stephen was ice skating when he slipped and had difficulty sitting up, he was diagnosed with a degenerative neuromuscular disorder. The disease was going to end his life in a few years, but he was willing to fight. By 1965, he married Jane Wayline while pursuing her Ph.D. at Cambridge. After 25 years of marriage, the couple separated and he went to live with one of the nurses who cared for him, with whom he later married. Despite the fact that his theories are widely recognized, to the degree that he is compared to Albert Einstein, the disease he suffers has made him prostrate in a chair forever and makes it difficult for him to speak, which he has to do through a technological device.
8: Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn had two very marked facets of her personality, one in which she was feminine and vulnerable and the other, where she recognized herself as a silly blonde who was not capable of having a stable relationship. It is known that she took medications for depression, neurosis and an obsessive compulsive disorder that revealed the deficiencies of her maternal love in her childhood. She suffered from panic attacks and had attempted suicide several times. The alleged relationship that she developed with former President John F. Kennedy would have been full of violence and mistreatment and is probably the reason for her death.
9: Keanu Reeves
His father was a geologist by profession and whenever he could, he humiliated the actor in front of whoever he was. He abandoned him when he was very young after divorcing his mother, years later he was imprisoned for drug trafficking. In order to raise his children, Keanu's mother had to work as a stripper. Reeves was the best friend of River Phoenix, who died of an overdose in 1993. In an interview, the protagonist of The Matrix assured that he thinks about him very often, that he must have done something to rescue him from drugs.
In 1999, Keanu was dating Jennifer Syme, who miscarried her daughter when she was eight months pregnant. Syme passed away in 2001 when she was returning from a party at Marilyn Manson's house. She was 28 years old and was buried next to her little baby.
Reeves has a fortune of more than 350 million dollars, but he does not live in a large mansion, he uses the subway and is seen on the streets sometimes wandering, the media assure that he suffers from a severe depression.
10: Franz Kafka
The writer was born into a family of Azquenazi Jews. A life full of tragedies accompanied him until his death, and began with the death of his brother Heinrich, of whom he felt guilty, because in a way he wanted her to disappear, all motivated by his jealousy. In 1917 he was diagnosed with Tuberculosis, which led him to break his betrothal to Felice Bauer, whom he met in 1912. During the five years, the relationship had been very stormy due to Kafka's hesitations. The illness forced the writer to spend a long time in hospital. In one of those hospitals he fell in love with the young Czech Julie Wohryzek, but his father's denial of the relationship made the marriage impossible. Years later he met the Czech Milena Jesenská, who was married and with whom he did not establish a relationship either.
In 1923, with the disease well advanced, he met young Dora Diamant, the great love he had always longed for; but in April of the following year his ailments worsened; In the company of Dora Diamant, his friend Max Brod and his uncle Siegfried, he died on June 3, 1924 at the Kierling Sanitarium.
