Marianne Faithfull says Mick Jagger breakup was hard and probably subconsciously shaped by rape in her family’s history. Marianne Faithfull revealed that she believes her relationships with men were formed by the trauma her mother and grandmother went through. Known for her passionate and public love affair with Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull now reveals that she didn't actually like men or sex. The sixties beauty admitted “It took me years before I could have sex without drink or drugs.”

In the sixties, Marianne Faithfull was known as one of the most beautiful singers with one of the most beautiful voices in pop. Marianne Faithfull’s first hit, “As Tears Go By,” was written by the Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Marianne Faithfull’s music and carefree lifestyle defined swinging London during the period. Marianne Faithfull, now 66 years old, made headlines when she was arrested wearing only a rug at the infamous party that sent Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to jail. Marianne Faithful started seeing Mick Jagger while she was still married to first husband John Dunbar, who also ran the gallery where and John Lennon met Yoko Ono.

Speaking about Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull said “He loved me and I loved him. I just walked away. I don't really know why. I had to move on. Of course it was very painful, and very very hard because I loved him.

Marianne Faithfull will be featured on the BBC1 show, “Who Do You Think You Are.” In the documentary that traces famous family roots, Marianne Faithful reveals that both her mother and her Jewish grandmother, Flora were raped by Russian troops in Vienna at the World War II. Her mother, Eva von Sacher-Masoch, was a dancer who developed a deep hatred of men, which subconsciously affected her and left her with a 30-year-old horror of men that probably doomed her own four-year romance Mick Jagger. After Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger broke up in 1970, the singer struggled with a decade-long heroin addiction that left her living on the streets of Soho for two years.

Marianne Faithfull told The Sun, “Eva never got over it and always hated men and passed it on to me. She wouldn't even have realised it - it just happened. The trauma and horror was life-long. It took until I was 50 to be in a relationship, to be in love and to not have to take drugs or drink to have sex."

Speaking of the breakup with Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull told the Sun, "He loved me and I loved him, but something in me compelled me to just walk away. I don't really know why. I had to move on. It was very painful and very, very hard as I loved him. I think my mother, the way she was with this unspoken loathing of men, had a huge effect. It was a big problem for me in the 60s, especially as I had to pretend everything was so wild and sexual and it really wasn't."

Marianne Faithfull’s mother is Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso. She fled Vienna, Austria, for London after she was attacked and raped by Red Army soldiers in 1945.

Marianne Faithfull told the Sunday Times “My mother particularly, and my grandmother, naturally enough, really hated men. It twisted them both. My grandmother turned away from my grandfather, who adored her. And Eva never got over that and always hated men. She then passed that on to me, actually. It took me years, until the time I got to 50 or so, before I could be in a relationship and love; and not have to take drink or drugs to have sex. I think my mother, and her unconscious and unspoken loathing of men, had a huge effect on me. It was a big problem for me in the Sixties, especially as I had to pretend that everything was wonderful, wild and sexual. But it really wasn't.”

“Who Do You Think You Are” will be shown on BBC One on September 18.

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