"People yelling out the windows, 'She did it, she did it,'" Moreno said. Moreno also expanded on how she landed her legendary role in the film adaptation of "West Side Story" in 1961, and what it meant to the Puerto Rican community for her to win an Oscar for the part in 1962. It definitely beat the name suggested to her by an MGM executive: Orchid Montenegro. She shared how she took the name Rita Moreno after being born Rosita Alverio by taking Rita from famous actress Rita Hayworth and Moreno from her stepfather's last name. "And for years and years and years, I battled that." "Once I came to America, I perceived that it was not a good thing to be Hispanic," she said.
Moreno also spoke with Hoda about her journey from a "fearful" little girl living in Harlem, New York, to the "ebullient" woman she describes herself as today. I look at my daughter, and I think, 'Look what might not have happened.'" "I was close," Moreno said "God, I’m glad that’s in the past. "And I’m looking in the cabinet mirror all the time and saying, 'See? That wasn’t so difficult.' It was just horrific."īrando's assistant found Moreno in time to get help after Brando had asked the woman to check on her. "And I finally opened the bottle and put I think about 10 pills in my hand and swallowed them. This is going to be your last breathing moment,'" she said. "It took a long time because I thought, 'If you’re going to do this, this is forever. She said she stared at a bottle of sleeping pills in Brando's bathroom medicine cabinet for almost a half hour before deciding to take them. I just can’t do this.' I felt so humiliated." "I was in his bed, and I thought, “I can’t do this to myself anymore. "He was doing 'Mutiny on the Bounty,' and he went to work," she said. Moreno said the deception was "the straw that broke the camel's back."
THE NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY, Rita Moreno, Marlon Brando, 1968 (Courtesy Everett Collection) She said she overdosed on pills to take her life after a "deception" by Brando. However, there was a dark side to her relationship with Brando that nearly ended in her death. Why is it sexy? Because I always think that a man who can be fast on his feet with humor can protect me." "And (Marlon) was really also a very interesting man. Aye-yay, you know, oh wow, that was incredible. "My husband was the love of my life," she said. The two had a magnetic attraction to one another that led to dramatic highs and lows. "Which of course is so amusing, because one loony telling the other, 'You’re sick, you know, get help.'"
"And the interesting thing, it was Marlon Brando with whom I had an eight-year, on-off relationship, who said to me one day, 'You really need help. "The only thing that saved my life - I know it - was psychotherapy," she told Hoda. Marlon Brando And Rita Moreno In 'Desiree' (20th Century-Fox / Getty Images)
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