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Marilyn Monroe's mother Gladys Pearl Baker was a single woman living with paranoid schizophrenia when she gave birth to the future icon, and their relationship remained strained until Monroe's sudden death.
When Marilyn Monroe first stepped onto the Hollywood scene, she claimed that she never knew her mother, Gladys Pearl Monroe.

The starlet told the public that she was an orphan who spent her childhood bouncing between different foster homes, but that tragic tale was only partially true. In 1952, a gossip columnist discovered that Marilyn Monroe’s mother was actually alive and working at a nursing home in a town outside of Los Angeles.
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