A free spirit is a free spirit, not troubled, neurotic, depressive, addictive and suicidal.
To me, a free spirit is someone living their own life by their own standards and untroubled by others’ rules and limits, and happy in cutting their own path.
Marilyn Monroe was seen as an unhappy victim of other people and died at an early age, not from a bad body part or a climbing accident but from a crushed spirit.
I’ve heard that DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe were going to get married again and that DiMaggio always thought that the Kennedys had her murdered. Not sure how true that is.