A former girlfriend of Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors, is sharing her experiences with him—including a claim that he once sexually assaulted her.
Judy Huddleston appears in the new docuseries *Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison*, where she says he raped her during their relationship... Continue reading here ▶
“I didn’t want to do it, and I told him no,” Huddleston recalls in the series.
“He pinned my arms back, and it was like he just snapped.”
She describes Morrison’s eyes going from a “sweet blue” to looking like “a possessed monster” full of rage.
Huddleston and Morrison dated for about four years, after meeting backstage at a Doors concert in the late 1960s.
Morrison died in July 1971 at the age of 27.
Huddleston later wrote about their time together in a 1991 book, which she updated and expanded in 2013 under the title *Love Him Madly*.
In past interviews, Huddleston explained that Morrison didn’t want to be her official “boyfriend,” and she hoped he would change his mind one day.
She now realizes she paid a high price for staying in that situation.
Morrison’s final days were spent in Paris with longtime girlfriend Pamela Courson. Courson found him dead in their apartment’s bathtub in 1971, and no autopsy was done.
In Before the End, filmmaker Jeff Finn looks at Morrison’s self-destructive behavior and tries to understand his complicated personality. Other people close to Morrison have also shared stories of his violence. Pamela Des Barres says he slapped her for no reason at the Whisky a Go Go. John Densmore, The Doors’ drummer, once saw Morrison threaten a woman with a knife.
“If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit rainn.org.”
