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You'll never believe where the 35th United States
president was while his wife was recovering

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from a traumatic event at home. Out of all the
ways John F. Kennedy did his wife Jacqueline

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Kennedy Onassis dirty, a good friend of hers
revealed that leaving her alone in the hospital

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during childbirth might have been the most
painful betrayal. In a candid interview with NBC

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musician Carly Simon disclosed some alleged
lecherous behavior showcased by the former

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President of the United States, and the shocking
admittance isn't just something she heard through

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the grapevine. According to Simon, the story of
Onassis being left alone in the hospital while JFK

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was out with his mistress was told to her by the
former First Lady herself. The You're So Vain

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singer sat down with the network to discuss her
memoir, Touched by the Sun, My Friendship with

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Jackie, in which she delved into the long-hidden
thoughts of the former First Lady of the United

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States. Not many are unaware of the patchy
marriage of Jackie and John F. Kennedy, but as a

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close friend of Onassis, Simon was privy like
none other to some of her most painful moments

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with her husband. Simon claims that Onassis was
well aware of the affairs, including the mistress

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he was with while she was in the hospital. She
learned the fact that it didn't necessarily mean

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anything more than wham bam thank you ma'am.
On the outside, John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline

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Kennedy Onassis were the President and First Lady
of the United States, the young newcomers to the

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White House that the media couldn't get enough
of. But as many ups as their relationship had

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Carly Simon's memoir reveals that looks can be
deceiving. Although the two seemed happy enough

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before the President's tragic assassination,
Simon points out that there were many things

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about the relationship that Onassis was aware of and didn like with the hospital episode being among the most hurtful
Simon recalled during her interview with NBC there are various things that he did that by comparison to having a mistress

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must have hurt more. For instance, his
not being there for the birth of a child

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his being off with a mistress while she was in the
hospital. The situation that Simon is recalling

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is the stillbirth of Onassis and JFK's child,
Arabella Kennedy. As reported by Irish Central

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in 1956. While JFK was still a senator,
Onassis woke up to find she was hemorrhaging

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so she was rushed to the hospital. After a
cesarean section, Jackie delivered a stillborn

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baby girl. She reportedly faced the traumatic event
alone, as JFK was partying in the Mediterranean

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with friends, along with, as Simon recalls, his
mistress. The 1956 delivery of their stillborn

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child was a hard time for Jackie Kennedy. She and
JFK had bought their first home together a few

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years prior, but with no one at home to support
her, she chose to go elsewhere after she was

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discharged from the hospital. According to
a New York Times report released that year

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after the harrowing experience, the soon-to-be
First Lady of the United States spent her recovery

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time with her parents. On the other hand, John F.
Kennedy was on a yacht cruising the Mediterranean

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catching rays and enjoying his time. He seemed
to be having a little too much fun because even

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after he heard the news of his stillborn daughter,
he was still allegedly reluctant to return home

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and check on his recovering wife. In the book
The Kennedy Baby, The Loss That Transformed JFK

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it's reported that another party attendee, his
friend George Smathers, had to exchange a few

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harsh words with the future president to
get his head on right. He allegedly snapped

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You better haul your ass back to your wife
if you ever want to run for president