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“As a young girl, I marveled at her grace, her beauty, her elegance. As a woman, I respected her grit, her resilience, her perseverance. May her journey be peaceful, and may her children and grandchildren know they did a great job caring for her, respecting her privacy, and loving her. Sending love to all of them,” Shriver wrote.
Joan Kennedy effectively separated from former Sen. Edward M. Kennedy before he ran, unsuccessfully, for president in 1980. However, as The New York Times noted in an obituary, they maintained a united front during his campaign for the Democratic nomination and it was after his withdrawal that the marriage officially dissolved. “Her struggles with alcohol became public with her repeated arrests for drunken driving, beginning in 1974. With her third arrest, in 1991, she was ordered into a rehabilitation program, the first of several,” the media outlet wrote after noting that she confessed to Laurence Leamer, author of the 1994 book The Kennedy Women, how her repeated miscarriages led to alcoholism. “For a few months everyone had to put on this show, and then I just didn’t care anymore. That’s when I truly became an alcoholic,” she said.
Originally published in Vanity Fair Spain.
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