Sunday 26 June 2022 08:48 AM Rita Moreno speaks out about botched abortion she had before Roe v. Wade trends now

Rita Moreno spoke out this Friday about the botched illicit abortion she had during her romance with Marlon Brando, years before Roe v. Wade.

Her remarks came the day the US Supreme Court overturned Roe, the landmark 1973 ruling that guaranteed abortion rights throughout the country.

The 90-year-old told Variety she had her pregnancy terminated by 'a real doctor - Marlon paid him $500 - as opposed to something in a back alley.'

Rita and Marlon met in 1954 and began a tempestuous eight-year affair that was scarred by his womanizing and eventually drove her to attempt suicide.

During the time that he was with Rita, Marlon married his first two wives and produced children with both of them.

Rita wrote in her memoirs that when she herself became pregnant: 'To my shock and horror, Marlon immediately arranged for an abortion.'

She claimed that Marlon would not even pick her up after the illicit procedure himself, enlisting one of his friends for the task instead.

In her new Variety interview, she remembered that 'Marlon found a doctor through some friends' to perform the abortion.

'Marlon took me to the hospital. I had what they told me was a 'disturbed pregnancy.' The doctor didn't do anything really, except make me bleed. In other words, he didn't do it right,' she shared. 'I didn't know it then, but I could have died. What a mess. What a dreadful mess.'

In her memoirs she laid out the medical problem in further detail, explaining that as a consequence of the bungled procedure she still had a dead fetus in her body and had to dash to the hospital to have it excised.

Her boyfriend's response was to be furious that the abortionist had 'taken' him, Rita recalled. 'Marlon wanted his money back!' 

She told Variety this Friday that she was 'jubilant' when Roe v Wade was issued and has been left 'depressed' by the decision

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