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Andrew Dominik\u2019s new film Blonde<\/a> has just been released on Netflix<\/a>, offering a fictionalised account of the life of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe.<\/p>\n Given that the film mixes fact and fiction, many viewers will likely be wondering just how accurate certain aspects of the film are, from the scenes involving John F Kennedy<\/a> to Monroe\u2019s\u00a0lack of a father figure<\/a>.<\/p>\n Another key aspect of the film concerns the relationship between Monroe and her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker, and audiences might also want to know just how accurately their real relationship is portrayed.<\/p>\n Read on for everything you need to know.<\/p> In the film, Monroe\u2019s early childhood is depicted as a very turbulent affair \u2013 not least because of a difficult relationship with her mother Gladys, played by Julianne Nicholson.<\/p>\n The historical record suggests that it is true Gladys struggled with motherhood, owing both to financial struggles and mental health difficulties \u2013 although there is no evidence to back up the scene in the film in which she tries to drown Monroe in the bath.<\/p>\n In her early life, Monroe was put in the care of foster parents. During this time, her mother regularly visited her and, according to J Randy Taraborrelli\u2019s biography The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, on one occasion she even attempted to smuggle her back home.<\/p>\n The pair did go on to live together again briefly, but Gladys was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in January 1934 and was eventually committed to the Metropolitan State Hospital a few months later, with Monroe then moving between foster parents and orphanages for the rest of her childhood.<\/p>\nWhat happened to Marilyn Monroe\u2019s mum?<\/strong><\/h2>\n