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Norma Jean and Marilyn - Goodbye, Norma Jean (Part 15)

Seemingly despondent over her firing from Fox, Marilyn visits with Eddie (Ted Jordan) one last time before heading to Mexico. Though Eddie knows she's desperate for someone to love her, he decides to walk away, leaving Marilyn; still haunted by Norma Jean; to her own devices. Contrary to what's depicted here, Monroe did not have a seizure in the back of an ambulance and die. She was found on her side unconscious and dead by her housekeeper on August 5, 1962. Two independent investigations into her death were conducted, one suggesting that the conspiracy theory of murder was not such, but rather a medical conspiracy, as Monroe's doctor's internist stated he was unaware that her primary physician, Dr. Greenson, had refilled her prescription of Nembutal that later interacted with the chloral hydrate she was given as a sleeping aid earlier. The 1982 investigation revealed no evidence that a criminal act had been committed, though Monroe was categorized as a "security risk" because of her involvement with Kennedy and her trip to Mexico in which she conversed with openly communist Americans. It is also believed that she purchased unprescribed medications there before her death, which was ruled as a suicide seeing as how prescription bottles were found on her nightstand next to her body. That, along with a history of being resuscitated after several overdoses, seems to suggest that it was in fact a suicide.