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It's an early morning in May 1942.
Lee Krasner is in her apartment on Ninth street when she hears someone outside.
Lee opens the door.
It's someone she recognizes.
It was Pollock's brother, saying she had to come to the hospital because Pollock had been on a bender.
Lee doesn't know what to think.
She asks where exactly Jackson is.
Here's Mary Gabriel, who you heard from in our previous episodes.
He was in such a bad way that he ended up in Bellevue Hospital, New York's infamous hospital for derelicts and mentally infirm.
For years, Jackson had tried to stop drinking, but nothing helped for long.
At Bellevue, Lee could see that he was in bad shape.
The man she saw on the bed was not the man she'd come to know.
Lee is speechless for a second.
She knew Jackson liked to drink, but nothing like this.