The Final Feuds Nancy Reagan Took To The Grave

#1 She Was Hateful

Nancy Reagan, whose romance with husband Ronald Reagan took her from Hollywood to the White House, passed away earlier in 2016 at the age of 94. Her story is one that movie writers could not have scripted any better. From Tinseltown, hobnobbing with celebrities, the First Lady of California, and her jealous feuds, she fought right up to the bitter end.

#2 She Took A Lot Of Anger To The Grave

After becoming seriously ill in 2015, the former First Lady fell and suffered from fractured and broken ribs and was wheelchair bound up to hear death. In the last few months before her death, she was rarely seen in public, but one reported shared that "Mrs. Reagan appeared disorientÂed, pale, weak and very fragile," after he saw her late last year. "She was so bony that her clothes appeared to be falling off her!" Mrs.Reagan was buried next to her husband at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.

#3 Que Sera Sera

A bitter woman right up til the end, Nancy never lost her vigor for a few good battles. Nancy had spent decades in a long-simmering feud over which starlet should've married Ronald Reagan! "Nancy has wanted nothing to do with Doris Day for more than 60 years," said an insider, "and it's all because of Ronnie!" The once famous actor starred with Doris Day in the 1952 movie The Winning Team and were linked romantically for several years, even after he had been spotted dating other celebs like Bette Davis, Lana Turner, Betty Grable, and Susan Hayward.

#4 He Missed Out On Doris Day

The rivalry between the ladies began after the future President divorced first wife Jane Wyman in 1949. Reagan went as far as getting engaged to Ila Rhodes after the split, a blonde screen beauty with a wild reputation. Reagan met Doris on the set of "Storm Warning" the next year. Sparks flew as friends encouraged the actor to make a move, but Ronnie was reluctant to make a commitment because the two were being cast together and he felt it would be uncomfortable, Later, agent Marty Melcher swooped in to became Doris' third husband in 1951 and she was still dating Reagan and being seen with him at Hollywood functions.

#5 Doris Day Was His True Love

Despite their on-again, off again romance, "Ronnie remained smitten with Doris," confirmed an insider. "He loved to watch her films, he loved her records, he loved everything about her. Nancy knew that, and it made her feel like leftovers. She refused to let Ronnie even speak Doris' name around the house." The two ran into one another at a charity function and said 'hello' but Nancy was still jealous of the girl-next-door actress and fumed off and left the event.

#6 Nancy Stopped Ronald From Speaking To Doris

Ronald and Doris remained friends through the years despite the jealousy Nancy held. "I think Doris, at times," added the friend, "has wished that she could've been the one who helped Ronnie get to the White House." Sadly, the two women were never able to bond over their mutual love for the man who became one of America's greatest political leaders. In her final years, Nancy refused to reach out to her husband's dear friend. "This is a feud," the source said at the time, "that won't end until both of them are in their graves. Nancy is really spiteful."

#7 Kitty Kelly Tells All

Nancy also never forgave author Kitty Kelly for implying that she had a passionate affair with Frank Sinatra during her husband's days in the White House. Nancy got the last laugh, however, when the blockbuster book, "Sinatra: The Chairman," revealed that Frank had actually turned to Nancy for feminine companionship because of his impotency. The two ladies despised one another to the point that Nancy sent the famous gossip a dozen dead roses for her birthday one year. Kelly was constantly bashing the First Lady in her reports and gossip columns.

#8 Nancy Secretly Embraced Frank Sinatra

Nancy's friendship with Sinatra grew stronger and stronger. Two years after Frank performed at President Ronald Reagan's 1981 inaugural gala, he was "spending more and more time apart" from fourth wife Barbara, and enjoyed torrid affairs with beauties like Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe, and Angie Dickinson, but his problems with Barbara had more to do with his "impotence" rather than infidelity, according to his book. However, author of the book 'Love Triangle', the crooner was madly in love with Nancy and had told his wife that she was the only woman he ever felt a connection with.

#9 She Hated Jane Fonda

Another person Nancy hated with a deep passion was actress and Academy Award winner Jane Fonda. Fonda, who played Mrs. Reagan (as pictured) in the critically-acclaimed movie "The Butler" says that she has no idea why Nancy Reagan hated her so much but says that she would never speak to her and always gave her 'dirty looks' whenever they were at an event together. Sources said that Nancy approved of Jane's acting job in the critically acclaimed movie, but she refused to forgive Fonda for her real-life role as "Hanoi Jane" during the Vietnam War. She is said to have nicknamed Fonda "The Traitor" and told aides that she was "despicable".

#10 She Called Fonda A Traitor

Jane Fonda was a strong opponent of the Vietnam War, and all war. She traveled to North Vietnam and was photographed sitting on an enemy anti-aircraft gun, seeming to support the communists. "Nancy will never forgive or forget what Fonda did because she knows that President Reagan would never forgive her," revealed a source close to the family. "So many U.S. servicemen died for our country in the war, and Jane is still viewed as a traitor by many vets."

#11 Hanoi Jane Jabs Back At The First Lady

In a major slam to Nany Reagan, Jane did an interview to promote the "The Butler", about Nancy, and wore a "Hanoi Jane" T-shirt showing her back in the day with a clenched, raised fist. "If Nancy had any lingering thoughts about forgiving Jane, those were erased by her wearÂing that shirt," said the source. "It was a slap in the face to Nancy, and to Ronnie." Nancy is quoted in an interview later that Fonda was "a mockery to acting and to American women."

#12 She Loved Drama, Even In The Family

The former First Lady was also kept busy in her final days overseeing family feuds even as her health rapidly deteriorated. She kept the fires burning between the three Reagan children for almost a year. Her children were already busy fighting over her $15 million estate, with Nancy's biological kids Ron and Patti Davis feuding with their dad's adopted son Michael (at center) on the other side. According to sources, she wanted Micheal left out of everything because "he wasn't blood."

#13 She Despised Michale Because His Mother Was Jane Wyman

Family friends said the two were begging Nancy, to completely freeze Michael out of her will and she was in agreement. "Both Ron and Patti can't stand Michael," revealed a family friend at the time. "They feel that when Nancy dies, Michael doesn't deserve a dime of the Reagan estate. That's because Jane Wyman was Michael's mom, not Nancy." Nancy had held a torch for actress Jane Wyman for decades, jealous of Ronald's marriage to the struggling actress.

#14 Claims Wyman And Reagan Married because She Tried To Overdose

In 1940, Ronald married Jane Wyman, then an unknown actress. He'd started seeing her even though she was still the wife of a dress manufacturer named Martin Futterman. Wyman reportedly overcame Ronnie's qualms about adultery by convincing him her marriage was on the rocks. Nancy Reagan came forward in an interview in 1988 that said, "Ronnie agreed to marry Wyman only after she overdosed on sleeping pills and left a suicide note." However, the well-publicised marriage lasted eight years. People who knew Nancy wrote it off as another of her jealous rants.

#15 She Died Bitter And Jealous

In 1951, after being linked to over 50 women, he met B-movie grade actress nancy Davis and according to her it was love at first sight. Others say she wanted to use Reagan as a ladder like Jane Wyman had to make a name for herself in acting. She went to her grave hating Wyman and the three children Ronald had with her. Close friends say she was jealous and bitter up to the very end. Sources claim she held a long regret for not following her career, which is why she is so jealous of the women who were successful.

#16 Laundry List Of People She Despised

And that's not all. Insiders close to the former First Lady say she held a grudge against many people who she felt had done her wrong over the years. Everyone from movie producers, agents, elected officials, and even former First Lady Barbara Bush, who is said to have disapproved of Nancy's flirtatious ways with Frank Sinatra. A small list of others she allegedly hated all the way to her grave include Marilyn Monroe, Lana Turner, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Stephanopoulos, Piper Laurie, Faye Dunaway, Elis and Priscilla Presley, Rosalynn Smith Carter, Margaret Thatcher, William Holden, President Jimmy Carter, Humphrey Bogart, Alice Faye, Nancy Sinatra, Princess Diana, Barbra Streisand, and her own stepchildren!

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