When she wasn’t on stage or screen, she was in residence at the city’s most luxurious hotel, swanning about with a pet monkey on her shoulder, wearing a fur coat with nothing underneath except for rolled stockings and an antique locket on a chain filled with cocaine.
In addition to her addictions to cocaine, opium and morphine, one of Berber's favorite forms of inebriation was chloroform and ether mixed in a bowl. This would be stirred with a white rose, the petals of which she would then eat.
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