Her kidneys had failed, forcing doctors to put her on a dialysis machine – a treatment she will continue now that she’s been released from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, her friends say.

The former teen beauty, who has a history of anorexia and alcoholism, has just ended a three-week stay in a Los Angeles hospital, where she was taken after she collapsed in her one-bedroom apartment in West Hollywood, her closest friends say. I feel so alone,” Dee recently told a friend. Bobby is gone and my mother is gone and they were the two most important people in my life. It was the late ’50s – Sandra Dee was the hottest starlet in Hollywood.Īs “Gidget,” she officially launched the beach-party movie craze – and her storybook marriage to pop star Bobby Darin made her a household name around the world.ĭee, who turned 58 today, has lost her health, her fans, her family – and nearly her life.