escribing a tumultuous 43-year relationship, the memoirs of Tarita Teriipaia, a former wife of Marlon Brando, were published yesterday in France. Her book, "Marlon, My Love, My Suffering," described the Oscar-winning star of "The Godfather" and "On the Waterfront," who died last year, as a temperamental character cruel one minute and loving the next. "He attracted me and at the same time he scared me," she told the French press. She said, for example, that Brando had begged her to have his child and then tried to make her abort it. She decided to keep her baby boy, Teihotu, and the couple later had a daughter, Cheyenne. Over the years, said Ms. Teriipaia, left, with the actor on the set of the 1962 film "Mutiny on the Bounty," Brando distanced himself from her and his increasingly mentally disturbed daughter, and only seldom visited Tetiaroa, the island he had bought in the Tahiti atoll. Ms. Teriipaia, who is Tahitian, said that writing the book was cathartic. The publisher, XO Editions, is in discussions about translations.