She was 19 already. That little kid was just 14 or 15. So I could not
possibly give her more leeway than to my daughter, who was so much
older.
Sometimes I think maybe if I wasn't so strict with her, maybe--you
never know with children.
Mr. JENNER. Well, now, Mr. De Mohrenschildt's daughter, Alexandra, is
now married.
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. She is divorced.
Can you imagine that?
Mr. JENNER. She has remarried.
Tell me about your present husband. What kind of a person is he?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, I tell you. He is a terrific person,
absolutely terrific. He has a soul of gold. I really mean it. And
sometimes he drives me so crazy, I can just smash his head, because he
is so impatient. He is extremely impatient. He is always in a hurry.
You have to be 10 times faster than he is in order to have everything
quiet. That is about the only quality that I would not like--he is just
always in a hurry. He is always rushing somewhere, and everything has
to be just immediately. Never a second late.
Mr. JENNER. Is he an outspoken person?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Oh, yes; very, very, very outspoken person.
Mr. JENNER. Very handsome and an attractive man?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, I tell you. I like--inside--I think he is
much better inside than outside. He is a good-looking man. And women
find him fantastically attractive. I don't. I like his personality. I
think he is wonderful. He feels--he is nice with people, he is nice
with animals. I don't think he can ever hurt anybody or do deliberate
harm.
He can do a lot of harm by saying something without thinking, and
actually hurt a person's feelings without realizing what he says may
hurt them. He may do that.
But he would never do anything deliberately to hurt anyone. So by
speaking like that--for instance, he can make a joke about a person,
really unintentional, and that joke might hurt a person.
Mr. JENNER. He is a little heavy in his humor?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; sometimes it is uncalled for at all.
And, later on, when I tell him, he agrees with me. But it was already
said. And especially when you hurt little people, they get awfully
hurt. And he has that habit of sort of teasing people, or ribbing
people, which some people appreciate and some people don't.
I personally don't appreciate teasing, and I don't appreciate--I don't
think it is necessary. He thinks it is very funny. I don't think it
is funny at all. That is the thing. Through that, I am sure he has a
couple of people that don't like him very well. I don't think they
hate him. The only one that is really not fond of him is his ex-wife,
because of the children.
Mr. JENNER. Didi?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. She was so hateful, that nothing could just
soften her or break her down--nothing, nothing, nothing. No matter how
he tried, no matter how I tried, nothing. It is a blank wall. Such
hatred, such venom and such hatred. It is impossible.