Newly discovered documents suggest that Marilyn Monroe had a secret lesbian relationship with her German acting teacher, Natasha Lytess, who was also her drama coach at Columbia Pictures.

The documents reveal that Monroe lived with Lytess “as man and wife” for two of the seven years they worked together from 1948 to 1955.

According to the Daily Mail, Monroe had admitted to lesbian flings with Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, and Barbara Stanwyck, as well as affairs with Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, and the Kennedy brothers.

A pair of Monroe’s jeans is currently up for sale with a letter of authenticity from Lytess, Monroe’s dearest friend.

Although the letter doesn’t discuss their relationship, details about the relationship were disclosed in a 1962 interview with Lytess, the year the actress died, which has since been discovered.

Monroe once told her close friend, actor Ted Jordan, that she and Lytess were sleeping together, and that sex is something you do with people you like, according to Lytess.

When they first met in 1946 when Monroe was 20, says Lytess, “she was not beautiful,” adding that Monroe was “always nad” in the home they shared, “nkd, she was always nkd in the house. 6 or 7 or 8 hours…she was nkd all day long! And I’m not exaggerating!”

Lytess also claimed that Monroe was crippled with insecurities and afraid of giving up all that made her sexy.

“She thought she had nothing to give except s– appeal. In fact, it’s interesting because she really hated s–!…Yes Marilyn.

“She hates s–. She was afraid of that. When someone told her, ‘You look sexy,’ she did not like that,” said Lytess.

Lytess said that she was with Monroe for ten years, and they were so close that the actress would often insist that they held hands, even when they were filming a scene.

“On the set I was always very close to her,” Lytess said in the interview.

“I had to be so close to her that she was always asking: ‘Can she be a little bit closer to me?’

“The director answered, ‘Yes but we see her in the camera.’ Very often, during close-ups, I had to hold her hand. I had to support her every time.”

Lytess also claimed to have saved Monroe from death after discovering her in bed with a bottle of sleeping pills.

“I saw Marilyn in her bed, her hair was uncombed, she was not really covered up, and her face was awfully pale. Her cheeks were swelled, and she had a vacant look. I said, ‘What have you done Marilyn?’

“She answered, ‘Nothing.’ And I violently slapped her because I was terrified, you know. I opened her mouth, and it was full of an awful green thing. I do not know what it was, but I took it from her mouth with my hand.

“She had swallowed sixteen sleeping pills. The doctor told me that dose was so high that it could have killed her.

“At that moment of her life, she wanted to kill herself because she was lost.”

In her recent book, Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox, author Lois Banner wrote that “Natasha and Marilyn lived together as husband and wife, although Marilyn often simply wanted to be held.”

“She was like a child in her need for physical affection.”

Monroe would later say, “Miss Lytees made me free. She gave me balance and made me understand life. I owe everything to her.”