Family Curse
Tragically, Hemingway’s granddaughter Margaux committed suicide by drug overdose in 1996. Depression and suicide is a dark theme that runs through the Hemingway family like a curse.
As well as her grandfather Ernest and her great-grandfather (Ernest’s dad), two of Ernest’s siblings also died at their own hands. Suffering from cancer and Depression, sister Ursula died of a drug overdose in 1966, and Leicester, a person with diabetes, faced with the loss of his legs, shot himself in the head in 1982. Margaux’s sister, Mariel Hemingway, has become a mental health advocate.
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