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Book rips the lid off John, Bobby & Teddy <strong>KENNEDY</strong>’s mother who beat them, tormented her cheating hubby and her drug fueled guilt over lobotomized daughter.
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Behind the facade of America’s most beloved political dynasty lurked a maternal monster – a compulsive shopper and possible anorexic who beat her children and took drugs that may have contributed to the mental health issues of her third child.
The shocking truth about Rose Kennedy is laid bare in the book, “The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch”, which is based on newly released letters and diaries written by Rose herself.
Author Barbara Perry quotes Rose admitting to striking her children and locking them away in dark closets when they became too much for her to handle. “it would just get one or two of them out of the way for awhile,” confessed Rose. “I spanked them with a ruler.