Kennedy and Peter Lawford attempted to prevent this by enabling her addictions.[67] According to Summers, Monroe became hysterical and accidentally overdosed, dying in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.[67] Kennedy wanted to leave Los Angeles before Monroe's death became public to avoid being associated with it, and therefore her body was returned to Helena Drive and the overdose staged as a suicide by Lawford, the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover.[67]