The tragic death of Marilyn Monroe is the subject of a new Netflix movie called Blonde, with Ana De Armas playing the role of the iconic blonde.

However, the film has received poor reviews and only a 52% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her home on August 6, 1962. It was estimated that she had died six to eight hours before that on August 5.

She was found lying face down on her bed, totally undressed, with an empty pill bottle next to her.

After her death, rumours began to spread that she had taken her own life due to an alleged affair with John F. Kennedy, the President of the United States at the time.

Allan Abbott and Ron Hast, who ran one of the most popular funeral services in the 1960s for celebrities such as Monroe and Natalie Wood, have shared details about the state of her corpse in their tell-all book.

Abbott claims that Marilyn was almost unrecognisable when he saw her body shortly after she had died.

According to Abbott’s account, Marilyn’s usually beautiful face was marred by purple blotches.

The roots of her hair were also quite lengthy, and she was in serious need of a manicure and a pedicure.

“When we removed the sheet covering her, it was almost impossible to believe this was the body of Marilyn Monroe,” Abbott said.

He also claimed that Marilyn looked like an ageing woman who had not been taking very good care of herself.

“Obviously, the circumstances surrounding her death had greatly exacerbated her poor appearance and she was unrecognisable,” he added.

Abbott explained that when someone dies, gravity causes the blood to settle to the lowest point of the body, causing discolouration.

According to his report, Marilyn died face down, which led to the purple blotches all over her face.

The funeral directors also made the decision to perform surgery on Marilyn’s neck to reduce swelling.

Abbott shared that after the surgery, he received clothes to dress her in and noted that she was buried without wearing any underwear as she “never wore panties”.

Marilyn’s makeup artists Sydney Guilaroff and Allan “Whitey” Snyder later explained that she had begun to use false breasts as her natural breasts began to sag in her thirties.

They claim to have found false breasts in Marilyn’s belongings but chose not to use them in the end.

Although Marilyn appeared to be a confident woman, details of her insecurities and harrowing loneliness emerged some years after her death.

Before her death, it seemed as though Marilyn was trying to pull her life together.

She had just bought her first home in California’s Brentwood neighbourhood and was the cover girl for the world-renowned Life magazine.

As well as that, the 36-year-old had just been rehired for the film Something’s Got to Give.

However, she had divorced her third husband, playwright Arthur Miller, the year prior, and there were rumours about an alleged affair between her and President JFK.

The tragic ending to Monroe’s rise to glory from a tough childhood to movie star royalty was a real-life Cinderella story.

While her death at the age of 36 was ruled as a probable suicide, theories still abound about what may have actually led to her passing in her final days.