The Tragic Story of Cheyenne Brando – Marlon Brando's Daughter Lost to Schizophrenia

In April 1995, Marlon Brando was back in cinemas. On Easter Sunday that same month, on the island of Tahiti, his daughter Cheyenne lost a five-year war with her own mind. She was twenty-five. Five years earlier, she had been the only person who knew exactly what happened on the night her brother Christian shot the man she loved, Dag Drollet, inside their father's house on Mulholland Drive. Two governments, three courts and the most famous actor in the world fought over what she might say. She never said a word in court. This is the tragic story of Cheyenne Brando: the girl who grew up in paradise and never left the night of May 16, 1990. Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:56 An island and a stranger 4:46 The most beautiful girl in Polynesia 6:34 Dag 7:28 A hundred miles an hour 9:29 The trip 10:30 The sixteenth of May 12:54 "I wouldn't do it in my father's house" 14:59 The witness 16:58 The next eight hours 18:48 "Perhaps I failed as a father" 20:19 The house near Orléans 22:10 The lost years 24:10 Easter Sunday 25:35 Together 27:27 What remained 29:06 Closing If you or someone you know is struggling, please reach out. In the US call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline). In the UK and Ireland call Samaritans on 116 123. Elsewhere: findahelpline.com Some scenes are visual reconstructions and are labelled "AI Reconstruction" on screen. Narration is based on contemporary press reports, court records and published biographies. Photo credits (Wikimedia Commons): Papeete cemetery: Peter Gill, CC BY 3.0 Uranie cemetery, Papeete: Ya6ne, CC BY-SA 4.0 Marlon Brando in Finland, 1967: Urpo Rouhiainen, CC BY 4.0 Tetiaroa from the sky: Supertoff, CC BY-SA 3.0 Motus of Tetiaroa, Onetahi islet, Tetiaroa airport: Saga70, CC BY-SA 4.0 Punaauia Beach, Tahiti: Matthew Dillon, CC BY 2.0 Faa'a International Airport: FRED at French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 Mulholland Drive at night: Peetlesnumber1, CC BY-SA 4.0 View from Mulholland Drive overlook: Andy Gnias, CC BY-SA 4.0 Santa Monica Courthouse: Jengod, CC BY-SA 4.0 Other archival images are in the public domain. #CheyenneBrando #MarlonBrando #TragicStory