illegal abortion that probably influenced the messy state of her reproductive organs as they were then. She then went on to find out everything she could about the in vitro fertilization program at UCLA. (p.34) They decided to go this route, and Gene gave her daily injections. They kept making her take the shots which was part of their experimental protocol but it messed up and the pregnancy test came back negative. She then started concentrating solely on her ovaries and driving Gene wild. Then they started a new movie called Haunted Honeymoon where they had to be in England for quite sometime. Even after all the craziness over the baby Gilda decided to put that on hold while she explored her career as a movie star. (p.41) Well sure enough, before too long, she ended up pregnant. Neither of them were thinking about it or even trying for a baby. It just happened. Unfortunately, she had a miscarriage. She then threw herself right back into her work.
             She bounced back pretty quickly from the miscarriage, but caught a cold that was going around. She couldn't seem to shake the cold. They finally came back to America after they were done shooting the movie and Sparkle was plenty mad that they had left her there all that time. A new element was then added to her symptoms -- a fog like thing kept rolling over her. (p.48) She had elevated antibodies which was eventually said to be part of the Epstein Barr virus. She ran a low grade fever for the next couple of weeks. She had really weird health patterns. She got really depressed about her health situation. Gilda seemed like she was just in and out of her depression. She felt like her career was slipping out of her control. (p.53) In April of 1986 terrorism was just running rampant and she couldn't get to England to be with Gene because it was too dangerous to fly. Of course Chernobyl happened right around this timed and that spazzed everybody out too. During th...