Marjorie Wallace - Overdose

Overdose

Less than three months later, Wallace was rushed to St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital after Wallace's sister Nancy found her in her apartment unconscious, apparently the victim of an overdose of the sleeping pill doriden, according the AP. One doctor told the AP Wallace was “comatose, and in pretty bad shape.” Doctors put her on a dialysis machine to clear her kidneys, the AP reported.

“She might have felt like she couldn’t go on,” Wallace's mother was quoted by Alabama’s Florence Times Daily.

Despite her mother's speculation, Wallace told People two years later, "I was depressed and OD'd on a few too many sleeping pills. I never attempted suicide."