Gladys Baker was so mentally unstable that she was unable to care for Norma Jeane, who spent her childhood tossed between relatives and the foster system. By the time Marilyn Monroe was a celebrity, Gladys was hearing voices and being trundled in and out of mental hospitals.
Date: May 30, 2015
Category: Entertainment
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Eventually, Gladys Bakers flightiness deepened into mental illness; her daughter was passed from relative to foster parent to orphanage back to relative. Later, Monroe said she remembered her mother trying to smother her when she was a baby, and that someone had raped her when she was a child.