gatabella:“It started with a phone call from Frank saying he’d rented a house on Lake
gatabella: “It started with a phone call from Frank saying he’d rented a house on Lake Tahoe and why didn’t I come by. A few nights later, when we had both drunk too much, Frank made an offhand remark that hurt me so deeply that I decided to go back to Los Angeles.The telephone rang; it was Hank Sanicola saying, ‘Oh my God, Ava. Hurry back! Frank’s taken an overdose!’ I have been exasperated with Francis Albert Sinatra many times, but never more so than on the morning when I rushed back to his bedside back at Lake Tahoe. I ran into his bedroom and looked down at him and he turned his sad blue eyes to look at me. ‘I thought you’d gone,’ he said weakly. He’d had a fine rest, doctors watching over him, feeling his pulse, and they didn’t even have to pump his stomach; he hadn’t taken enough phenobarbitol for that. Everybody had been up all night except Frank. I could have killed him. Instead I forgave him in about 25 seconds.”- Ava Gardner, autobiography -- source link