John osborne's life was one long melodrama. His sister died when he was an infant; his father died when he was ten; his mother, a barmaid, did not love him. He said he hated her, and ignored her funeral. Osborne's first wife left him; his second wife, divorced, died of an accidental overdose; his third wife, also divorced, died of alcoholism; his fourth wife committed suicide after their divorce. He and his fifth wife did love each other, but when he died, aged 65, he thought he was a theatrical reject. He was also bankrupt.
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