This story is from August 07, 2009

Marilyn Monroe carried my baby: Tony Curtis

Hollywood legend Tony Curtis has claimed that his affair with screen icon Marilyn Monroe resulted in the actress getting pregnant.
Marilyn Monroe carried my baby: Tony Curtis
LONDON: Hollywood legend Tony Curtishas claimed that his affair with screen icon Marilyn Monroe resulted in theactress getting pregnant. The duo had an extra-marital affair whileshooting together for 'Some Like It Hot' in 1958, which got Monroe pregnant,reported Daily express. Curtis makes the shocking claim in his newmemoir that film goddess Monroe was expecting his baby but later miscarried.The memoir 'The Making Of Some Like It Hot' is set for publicationin the US in September. "When I was in bed with Marilyn, I was neversure, before, during or after, where her mind was. She was an actress. She couldplay a part. She could give the part what she thought a man wanted," Curtiswrites in his book. The 84-year-old actor recalls the day Monroeannounced her pregnancy in October 1958 during a heated exchange with herplaywright husband Arthur Miller, who refused to believe the baby was Curtis'child. The actor claims that the couple first had an affair in 1950,which they rekindled in September 1958, when his wife Janet Leigh was pregnantwith their second daughter, Jamie. "I never asked for more. What Iexperienced with her was unforgettable," he writes. Since his affairwith Monroe, Curtis struggled with physical and emotional problems, includingbattles with cocaine addiction and depression.

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