Alain arranged for her son to be buried alongside her. Her heart stopped after she took the combination of pain killers and alcohol, not long after her teenage son died in a strange accident, puncturing his femoral artery after slipping while climbing a spiked fence. She never recovered after their love affair but they managed to remain friends until the end. In 1959, she was 20 years old and met Alain Delon, 24, while filming a movie called Christine. When I was a child I came across this article about Romy Schneider. A graduate of Brown University and Juilliard, she lives in New York City and is currently working on a novel.įind her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter: Winner of the Dramalogue for Outstanding Actress, Christina continues to work in film, theater, and television, most recently on Law and Order:SVU and the new film, Half Brother. Winner of the Ella Dickey Literacy Award, her writing has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Hamptons Magazine, and Vanity Fair, and she is a contributor to the anthology, The Brown Reader, along with Jeffrey Eugenides, Marilynne Robinson, Rick Moody, Edwidge Dandicat, Donald Antrim, and Meg Wolitzer. Haag, 'a beautiful writer.' She was featured on The Today Show, Entertainment Tonight, CBS Early Show, the Joy Behar Show and Hardball with Chris Matthews, and profiled in People magazine and the Los Angeles Times.

A People magazine and USA Today pick, her book 'lyrically and precisely captures the frenetic ecstasy of early love.' COME TO THE EDGE was heralded by Publisher's Weekly as 'a piercing portrait,' and Entertainment Weekly called Ms. Christina Haag is an actress and the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, COME TO THE EDGE, which chronicles her childhood friendship and five-year love affair with John Kennedy Jr.

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