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Sep 10, 2019 · God really did save my life. I didn’t have any permanent damage from that attempt because I was in the hospital for two weeks in a coma. I could have had a lot of damage, but I was...
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Sep 16, 2019 · The summer of '42' actress, Jennifer O'Neill opened about the ups and downs in her life, including a suicide attempt. She admitted that finding faith and the love for God helped her get through the tough times.
May 13, 2023 · Actress Jennifer O’Neill, who plays the mother of former President Ronald Reagan in an upcoming biopic, says a recent personal tragedy and studying her character made her want to share her Christian faith with her family more.
- You Made A Big Impact Insummer of ’42.
- How Did It Change Your Life?
- Did You Always Want to Be An Actress?
- How Did You Get Started Modeling?
- And You Had A Cover Girl Contract For Over 30 Years! What’s Your Secret?
- How Did You Jump to Films?
- You’Ve Talked About Your Suicide attempt. Why Did That Happen?
- Do You Regret Marrying at 17?
- After You Had Your First Child, Aimee, You Had Electroshock Therapy. Why?
- Your Fifth Husband Sexually Abused Your Daughter. How Did You Get Through That?
I think I was only in the film for 14 minutes! It was a lovely film. But being known as the older woman at 22, people think I’m around 110. [Laughs] I have white hair, I don’t care!
For years, women would come up to me really happy and say, “Jennifer, my husband loves you!” Now they say, “My husband is in love with you, and so is my son!” They keep playing the movie, so it has a generational following.
Oh, no. I was born in Rio de Janeiro and moved to the U.S. when I was a year old. I started modeling at 15, which I didn’t care for, but it was a means to buy a horse. Then I married at 17. I was just in a hurry.
My parents were city folk. They lived in Connecticut for my sake and my brother’s sake until I was 14. They told me we were moving to New York City, which was disastrous, losing my ability to take care of a horse that I was able to ride. They wouldn’t let me take our dog and took her to the pound. Two guys that lived next to us suggested that I cou...
Good genes? I’m in the Smithsonian [Institution’s National Museum of American History], for one of the longest-running modeling contracts. If it ain’t broke, don’t change it!
People were offering me movies and Hollywood contracts, but I wanted to study acting first. I was at the Neighborhood Playhouse [in NYC] for one-and-a-half years and started acting in my early 20s.
I didn’t want to die, I just wanted to be heard. It was just a rebellion against my parents’ decisions. What seems like a bump in the road as we get older, to a teenager can seem catastrophic. I was in a coma for a couple of weeks, as I recall. What’s important is that it’s given me a platform to address what’s become an epidemic in this country.
Would I advise a 17-year-old girl to get married? No. But things are so different now. I grew up very quickly, and was traveling the world on my own at age 15 and 16. So it seemed pretty normal to me, and I wanted the anchor of having a family and a child.
I had postpartum depression, which was not identified at the time. Because I had that experience at 14, I was scared, so I put myself into a hospital and they gave me shock therapy. I had regressed to a place [mentally] where I didn’t hurt, so they gave it to me to bring me to the present.
My daughter and I are very close today, but we were in court for a year and I didn’t know who to believe. He passed lie detector tests, so it tore my relationship with her apart. He remarried and did the same thing to his next teenage stepchild. He was just a masterful liar.
Jun 13, 2016 · Jennifer suffered from mental stress to the extent that she actually checked herself into a hospital for treatment that included electro-shock therapy. The couple divorced in 1971, Jennifer made Summer of ’42, following which she aborted a pregnancy to a Wall Street socialite.
O'Neill's breakthrough role came in Robert Mulligan's period drama Summer of '42 (1971), in which she portrayed the wife of an army serviceman during World War II, who becomes the subject of a teenage boy's romantic attraction.
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Aug 30, 2024 · She started a ministry called Hope & Healing at Hillenglade, which offers equine therapy for active military members, veterans, and first responders. In this podcast, Pastor Allen and Jennifer remind us that God gives us all unique talents and opport.
