JC may not have been the best parent but she APPRECIATED HER FANS!! Seeing her on a NYC street 35 years ago, with my polite request ; she stopped and walked to me to sign an autograph and she signed THANK YOU with her name. She was older but still breathtaking and magnificently groomed. She would stand out in a crowd of thousands.
I only wrote the book for my family, I never intended it to be published, so I sent it to my famous writer friends in New York. - wtf??? that makes no sense
And she admitted she was very stubborn and obstreperous (her words) and the twins weren’t . And the twins said she was extremely loving and a great mother. So I’ve always wondered if Christina knew how to push her mom’s buttons, and knew how her mother was, why? Why push your mom’s buttons all the time to bring out the worst in her. That never made sense to me
In 1979 I met Joan Crawford's personal helper who worked for Crawford for many years. I video taped a 35 minute interview with her. She had a much different perspective on "Mommy dearest". I would like to publish this. I wrote Access Hollywood, but have not heard back. Many people would be interested.
On utube there is a 1960 audio of a radio interview of Christina. It is VERY revealing. After hearing it I thought, 'If only this interview had been re-released when the book and film came out.'
Here on TH-cam there is a wonderful tribute to Joan Crawford from actress Ann Blyth ( still alive at age 96) where Ann Blyth pays tribute to her friend and co-star from Mildred Pierce.
I'm an adoptive mother with bios as well. I don't know Crawford movies, or her daughter, never seen the movie or read the book. It came up on my feed. All i know is that raising a child from adoption, even though I got( 2) from birth, they have serious issues. It is hard. I'm not saying abuse is at all right, AT ALL... but I also know my adoptive daughter is very manipulative and lies VERY easily for attention. It has been a long and extremely stressful path, until school staff experienced the same, there was SO MUCH judgement. That's my perspective for what it's worth. Not taking either side.
She states in this twice that Joan beat her with the wire hangers but told Joy Bayhar years later that that was exaggerated in the film and that Joan actually didn't beat her with the hanger.
That’s why multiple multiple people filmed years later that were around when she was a kid said she was a liar even back then… it’s hard to keep lies straight but she spent her entire adult life trashing Joan Crawford and making money off her cold dead shoulders…
She’s so giddy and so flippant about what is portrayed to be horrific abuse. I went through horrible abuse as a child, and I am unable to talk about it with almost anybody. I certainly wouldn’t go on national television with such levity, giggling, jokes, etc. I don’t like to make anybody out to be untruthful about such a grave accusation as child abuse, but there’s just something not right about this woman.
Christina: "I moved out when I was 18 years old and never went back." Also Christina: I was shocked that I was disinherited in her will. I very much had a relationship with her as an adult. I was a caretaker for her.
@@adrianahalmi3337 right, if she was telling the truth her story would not change and it does. It's very suspicious she waited until her mom was gone and she was broke then said she wrote it as a diary , yet she sent to to people who where publishers to read. Makes no sense
Just read so many of the comments, and I am so glad!! I absolutely adore Joan Crawford. She is one of the most incredible, unrecognized actresses of all time. I didn't know what to think of her daughters book or accusations. Now I feel better because I just couldn't identify Joan as the way her daughter described her. Thank you all for sharing your wise comments.
I feel so sorry for Joan Crawford. She was a pioneer for women the Hollywood's golden age, and with her later rolls proved women were still relevent after hitting a certain age. She clawed her way to the top, became successful, rich, then when she couldn't have children took matters in her own hands and adopted. She seems to have done the best she could despite the fact she was under intense pressure from Hollywood. It's such a sad thing to me she is most remembered for "Mommy Dearest" and not her contributions to cinema...
I don't know whether these allegations against JC are true or not, but the problem with ' Tell-All ' books that are published only AFTER the subjects are dead, is that the dead cannot defend themselves...Or file suit for liable/slander...
Before, Christina mentioned that Joan never laid a finger on the twins. But in this video she mentions that the twins did had physical discipline done on them by Joan.
She sells it well, but I recently re-read MOMMIE DEAREST for the first time in years and I stumbled across something I had never noticed before. Christina claims that one evening she was playing bartender for one of her mother's dates, and when she opened the front door and saw a half-naked gypsy man with an earring and a bald head, she slammed the door and ran to her mother's room. Joan told her the man's name was Yul Brynner and he was filming THE KING AND I and must have come from the studio in his costume. One word: IMPOSSIBLE. She makes it very clear later in the book that she was shipped off to Chadwick school at age ten. Which would have been in 1949. THE KING AND I didn't even hit BROADWAY until 1951 and aside from his vacation Yul Brynner played every night for three years. So the very earliest he could have been in Hollywood filming the movie would have been maybe 1954 or 1955, by which time Christina claimed she never went home again except for a trip to Europe after Crawford married Al Steele in 1955. There is NO WAY she could have been at home on the day she claims that Brynner showed up for a date with her mother and at any rate her mother was just on the verge of marrying another man.
I wish someone would ask Christina two questions: why did you keep talking to your mom after you turned 18, and why did you wait until after she died to write the book? why not write the book when you're 30?
Trying to keep an open mind, especially coming from an abusive childhood, but to accuse her mother of murdering her husband with no basis whatsoever is strange. Plus it’s documented that he suffered a heart attack.
For a brief moment, Joe Esposito dated Christina Crawford. The story goes......Elvis had ben puffing on a cigar and Christina continued to tickle him in an attempt to get more direct attention. When Elvis didn't respond how she wanted she threw a drink in his face (at close range). His drink and cigar went all over his face. He proceeded to throw her out of his house. He apologized to the others in his home and said "Man, I'm sorry, I wasn't raised to treat a woman like that. She's crazy.....I don't know what's wrong with her." Also, in 1978, Christina was disinherited by Joan. She then wrote "Mommy Dearest".
I’m three minutes into this and I’m already having a hard time believing her. She says she “didn’t intend for it to become a book or a success” but sent the diary off to her friends who were writers in New York? Why do that when you’re saying you were keeping the diary for personal reasons.
Supposedly at the time the movie came out, instead of being taken seriously and as a drama people in theaters were busting -up laughing at the violent outbursts portrayed.
Do you visit your mother's grave? NO, NEVER, WHY WOULD I ? Is she buried next to you're step dad ? YES, UNFORTUNATELY. Wow, even after all these years she is still FUMING WITH HATRED FOR HER MOM. So sad.
I believed Christina for years. Until I started to notice the contradictions in her story. If she is lying about her mother, that is truly shameful. From what I've heard and read by people who were there is that Joan was strict, she disciplined her kids, but she was not abusive. She gave her kids everything but didn't teach them to be entitled with it. Joan came from absolutely nothing. She wasn't born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Maybe that's why Tina rebelled so much. She wanted it all without earning it or being grateful.
Reading the comments gave me the assurance that I'm not the only one who questions Christina's honesty. I have many doubts about a grown woman who says she "never" loved her mother. It's instinctual, and it's part of what makes child abuse so profoundly sad.
Coming from an alcoholic and abusive home myself I can say that I don't know how much of this is true. Seems like there are some contradictions such as Christina Crawford saying that Joan Crawford rarely left the house. That is not true as Joan Crawford traveled extensively, even in her later years.
She keeps contradicting herself through the whole interview. She says she supposes the twin girls were adopted, then says with absolute certainty they were all bought. She says she doesn’t have a first memory then says but my very first memory is being on set. She said nobody paid for her boarding school, then said her step father did. It’s like she says stuff for drama then immediately thinks the truth sounds more dramatic than the lie and changes it. I can’t believe people backed her during this. I find it really hard to believe anything she’s saying.
I've always seen it reported that Alfred Steele died of a heart attack. I think Joan Crawford may very well have been troubled and she likely was hard on the children. Some of what Christina says rings true. But not all of it, and nowhere have I ever seen it suggested that Joan Crawford pushed her husband down the stairs. It was irresponsible to let that stand. Her acting at first as if she didn't know she had younger siblings was ludicrous, too.
Bios indicate Steele died of a heart attack and was found next to his bed. NOTHING was ever stated about falling down stairs, suspicious circumstances, or bruises/breaks from a fall. So, what OTHER lies is she telling?
I have always been on the fence about all of the content of her book. Her immediate response to the question about was the movie accurate: “I didn’t get any residuals from it” bumped me off that fence! MONEY, MONEY, MONEY Her truth may not be THE truth, “recollections may vary”.
Amen. Christina is like the person who walks into a hotel, pulls down her pants and craps all over the lobby carpet in front of everyone. Later, she goes around telling everyone how "mean" the hotel staff were, throwing her out "for no good reason at all." Leaving out the vital part about what she did that led up to it. Christina's contradictions over the years, and her ridiculous assertion in later years that Joan was a murderer who killed Alfred Steele, show what a publicity-hungry money grubbing monster she is.
And now she's making a musical of Mommie Dearest I hear. How does one make a musical of child abuse? This woman is a couple french fries off from a Happy Meal!
I was abused by my teachers aide and it was difficult for me to talk about it I'm a real survivor of abuse this woman is not telling the truth this is a money grab I don't brag about my abuse I don't joke about it its sad how some people go to such lengths to get money I don't like the fact that I was abused as a child it was back in the 2000s in that decade abuse was not taken seriously in that time I agree Joan was not the perfect mom but I know that Tina is a spiteful vindictive person. Nuff said.
Myrna Loy & Joan met as chorus girls in 1925, were stars together @ MGM a decade later, remained neighbours & friends for life decades later in Manhattan. One of the highlights of Myrna's wonderful memoirs is her absolute takedown of Christina. Myrna turned to the stage in the '60's, travelled in a touring company of Barefoot in the Park. Christina was in the company. Despite marrying her director, she still managed to get fired from the production - Myrna said she was impossible to work with & already displaying her resentment of her mother. By the time Joan died, Myrna refused to acknowledge Christina @ her mother's memorial. Sadly, Christina established celebrity parental abuse as an industry, many have followed in her footsteps - Bette Davis had to deal with it during her lifetime. Bing Crosby, Lex Barker, Joan were all posthumously accused so no defense was possible. Christina won the lotto when Joan adopted her, since she could not sustain a career of her own.
My sons are 8 years apart. An eight+ year old child remembers everything in their childhood. When my sons talk they remind each other of events and situations, especially the older one. I think something is terribly wrong with Christina and that she was madly jealous(and is to this day) of her sisters.
It has always amazed me that, for someone who hates her mother so much, Christina Crawford sure has no problem keeping the last name Crawford, even after marrying twice. You would think that she would want to have no connection with her mother at all. Something about her seems very off to me. In this interview, she admits that she never loved her mother. I wonder if she is a sociopath. Not being funny, I'm serious. She certainly comes off that way in this interview, and it would explain a lot. Even Myrna Loy, in her autobiography, ripped Christina Crawford after working with her on Broadway. And if Myrna Loy doesn't like you, something isn't right!
I have a feeling she cashed in on the fame and notoriety. She seems disingenuous. I am a trauma and abuse survivor; she seems bitter about being disinherited and this was her revenge. And Joan's voice was already silenced.
Wait a minute..in one interview she says she saw her mother's dead body because she loved her..in another because she wanted to see that she was really gone..in another she says the book was written when she was sick but still alive..now says she wrote after her death..then she also says the movie was completely wrong especially the wire hanger scene and nothing like her mom and she got no money..in this one the wire hanger scene was pretty accurate...im confused..the interviews r all on utube so...yeah. " if celebs did this today it would be front page news" r u kidding me? Hellywood is filled with all sorts of debauchery most don't know anything about!
Question ? why did she take a drag queen dressed as joan around with her to publicize the book. to me this is suspicious and detracts from the gravity of her claims.
The other daughter of Joan Crawford said that their mother was strict, but very loving and mommie dearest was a big lie. Christina wanted to become an actress, but failed. She always envied and hated Joan. Happens with many adopted kids who grew up with complex vengeance feelings towards the person who had it all
I don't like to watch this interview. Simply because our beloved Joan Crawford had no opportunity to defend herself. I always like to believe there are three sides to a story. Christina's side, Joan's side and the truth. Unfortunately we'll never know the whole truth. May Joan Crawford rest in peace.
She's a liar. It is well know he died from a heart attack. And why would she even imply something like that. She has no proof or reason to even say that!
you know, I saw an interview with an actress that said Christina was ALWAYS a liar and a problem. She had accused some guy of sexual assault (rape) and come to find out she was STILL a virgin. The storys went on and on like that. Even the wire hanger thing was just an argument
Mike Douglas interviewed her on his TV Show in 1978 and said he didn't believe a word of it. He had Joan on his show many times and always promoted Christina's career on the show.
Im hearing inconsitancies in her story. First in another older interview she said she viewed her moms body to say goodbye and she loved her. Here she said it was to make sure she was dead. Also in that interview she said the hangers she was suppose to hang the clothes on were wooden. Here she says crocheted. Also in that interview she said they had good times.
I was hit with a hairbrush, I was also smacked when I answered back or was rude or had an attitude. Kids do that. What is now classed as abuse was often in those days.
Just finished watching a compilation of interviews and written statements from friends and her twins refuting a lot of what she has written and said about her mom, and attempting to shine up the tarnished image Christine perpetuated. I believe there were things that happened, loss of temper, control, etc. It is unfortunate that Christine never had children, as we are better able to understand the stress and humanity of our parents. I too had similar experiences growing up, but when I became a parent I understood some things better. Parents are under pressure and sometimes lose their shit. Things we magnify as children, we are better able to put into perspective as adults. That is not to say there couldn't be better behavior, but parents are also a product of their own upbringing and role models, and doing the best they can with what they know. Also back then, physical punishment was much more prevalent, expected, spare the rod and spoil the child mentality. It doesn't excuse everything, but she may have been able to give some grace for fallibility and humanity. According to her friends and family, she was a loving, warm generous, charitable person. A saint no, but probably not the devil that she was made out to be by Christina, which made Christina money and fame. It is a shame there wasn't better relationship.
Christine is an evil. You can tell after watching her in this interview. How can you have a good relationship with an evil? One day book is gonna be written, I hope , proving adopted daughter lies. Rest in peace , Joan.
Many of Crawford's friends and co-workers, including Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, Myrna Loy, Katharine Hepburn, Cesar Romero, Gary Gray, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (Crawford's first husband), and Crawford's two other younger daughters, Cathy and Cindy, denounced the book, categorically denying any abuse. On July 20, 1998, one of Joan Crawford's other adopted children, Cathy Crawford LaLonde, filed a lawsuit against Christina Crawford for "defamation of character". LaLonde stated in her lawsuit that during the 20th-anniversary book tour of Mommie Dearest, Christina publicly claimed to interviewers that LaLonde and her twin sister, Cynthia, were not biological sisters, and that their adoption was never legal. LaLonde stated neither claim by Christina was true, and attached copies of the twin girls' birth certificates and adoption documentation to the lawsuit. The lawsuit was later settled out of court for $5,000 plus court costs.
She very much intended for this to be published . Her mother couldn’t defend herself . I believe Joan was very strict especially with Christina who was the oldest . In another interview with joy Behar ( who I don’t like ) she says that the twins were not twins but Joan passed them off as twins . What’s the truth ? Here she’s not saying that . I can’t tell if Christina tells the entire truth or if she elaborates stories for an emotional effect
She was sued by one of the twins (one was deceased) & won. That's one of the reasons I don't believe Christina.... AS others point out: Crawford was a perfectionist, perhaps a bit OCD & an alcoholic: I'm sure it wasn't all roses - but Christina is lying or simply disturbed enough to believe things happened that simply did not....
Bette Davis's daughter wrote a book about her, and Groucho Marx's son Arthur wrote a book about him too 🤔 Christina reminds me a bit of Megan Markle's sister.
Even Bette Davis who had feud with Joan Crawford denounced the book. "I was not Miss Crawford’s biggest fan, but, wisecracks to the contrary, I did and still do respect her talent. What she did not deserve was that detestable book written by her daughter. I’ve forgotten her name. Horrible."
Sounds like maybe her birth mother could've been a woman of the night. I wonder if Christina was overly spoiled and expected to be the center of everything based on Joan's filming career and began watching and mocking her films characters that she watched while Joan wasn't present, to feel closer to her. Maybe Christine became vindictive unaware of the real world to feel some strange sense of control and worth, hence her novel. Unsettling that she doesn't conceive whether her siblings were adopted or not, what is real or hypothesis.
Why would the police officer who spoke to her after her mother supposedly tried to strangle her say that she needed to grow up fast and if it happened again, SHE would go to juvenile hall? Half of that story is missing. The half where Christina did something that supposedly could put her in juvenile hall. That the incidents basically stopped after that says something. And I suspect it wasn't because her mother was afraid of her own rage. Other sources who knew both state that Christina was stunningly stubborn and would refuse to do anything anyone asked her to do. That and other comments make it appear that she harbored hostility and jealousy toward her mother, wanting a great deal of attention while she herself treated her mother with disdain. It seems Christina has a no-fault attitude toward her own behavior, which comes across as a power play. One supposedly bad thing her mother did that I remember from the movie was that they both swam as fast as they could across the pool, apparently in a race. Her mother, being much older, was faster. Christina felt this was an example of how her mother was self-centered; she should have instead purposely lost the race. I was quite young when I saw that movie and was puzzled by the attitude as I wouldn't have had any such notion myself. The question to me was what was up with Christina that she would adopt such a notion. Joan was probably somewhat abusive, but by her twin daughters' recollection, Christina lived in her own world that didn't quite match reality. And her other daughters also state that Joan didn't spend everything on herself; they present a long list of people she helped and organizations she donated to, usually asking that her name not be attached.
I am so confused, I'm beginning to think about it & wonder if she had got oodles of money from the Will, would she still have written the book. Also, did the other adoptees, get anything from their Mothers Will?
Christina and her brother were specifically written out of the will, while the two younger adopted daughters did inherit. Joan also left a great deal to charity.
Hang on (pardon the pun)..Christina says she was appalled by the movie because she is intimating it was 'overly dramatised'...but in the next breath she describes, almost exactly, what happened with the hangers, rose bush and hauling her out of bed etc as in the movie...so what was different?...There does seem to be a slight underlying jealousy of a sort from Christina about Joan. She never amounted to anything as an actress, and sent journals of her writings of her childhood to her writer/publisher friends but says she didn't intend for them to be published?...Come on....I'm not saying Joan was perfect and probably drank a bit too much at times etc, I'm not saying she scolded the children at times, and although I don't know as I wasn't there, I feel Christina is maybe over milking this cash cow of a story. Of course child abuse is wrong, however, the other children (the twins) do not recall Joan being violent with them so it is hard to know what is the total truth.....Larry asks her what did she like about Joan....only mentioning one thing and then goes on to attack Joan again about her not being educated, only to let us all know how smart she is and that Joan was envious of it...eish...Joan was so 'harsh' and 'cold' that when she was drying and knew of it...she made provisions for her beloved dog to be taken care of. Christina doesn't even know that Joan had cancer...I know that and I wasn't her daughter....
Exactly! And who paid for Christina's education? And Joan was jealous of her daughter's education? Then why would she send her daughter to a very good boarding school? Does that make sense to you?
What a waste of a life time, trying to convince the world of her exaggerated claims. We survivors are angry, carry fears, resentments, BUT there is human compassion and love towards those who abused us. Doesn't mean we'd accept abusive treatment again, it means you can love the individual but hate what they did to us. You don't have to convince others of anything.
I’m conflicted...I can see this happening but you can sense the venom in her and she continues to use the Crawford name...she’s intelligent...why not completely break from her and give up her name
As much as I do not believe that Crawford was meant to be a mother, as she was self obsessed and narcissistic, many of the fables Christina recounts are so difficult to believe. The story about being told by social services to "buck up" or she'd be sent to juvenile detention makes no sense. Mom attacks daughter but daughter must be punished for that by being sent away? I am a social worker and not even 100 years ago would the kid be put into a juvenile detention center for being the victim. A residential home, yes. Foster care. Yes. She would not have been punished or even be threatened with punishment. So many pieces of her story are unbelievable. I believe that there was tension and there was no love lost when Crawford died..but oddly, the twin children refute all of this, and they were there when the "death scene" happened, being not "much younger" that Christina but only several years. They have denied that there mother was violent, toward anyone, including themselves yet Christina says that those twins were also hit. It is a puzzle that makes no sense and cannot be put together. She made money, though, and will continue to....and that was her goal...plus making her monster, screen icon, into a monster.
Notice she never names the "quite famous" writers who allegedly encouraged her to publish the piece of trash about jer mother. Couldn't they lend some veracity to her sad, sick tale? What a grifter.
I dont think anyone believed Christina was 100% right about her story Mommie Dearest. Every family feud has two sides and both sides arent accurate, in most cases.
I don't really know what happened. I do find it strange that Joan Crawford isn't alive to tell her side. When stories are one-sided I don't know if I believe it. You really need evidence in all cases. Joan Crawford is not here to defend herself. People write books all the time and they add stuff to sensationalize the book.
The other daughters said Joan was never like how Christina portrays her. I think Joan was firm and very disciplined and Christina comes from the generation who pushed against that and I think she was jealous and rebelled for the fame and money and to get back at her because they didn't get along.
I believe it’s true Joan treated her badly, but I also believe Christina is very spiteful, jealous and vindictive. I also believe she was an incredibly difficult child to deal with, which of course is no excuse for abuse. I did read once though that Joan had to pay Christina’s rent for quite some time because her acting career wasn’t doing the greatest as an adult, and that’s why she didn’t get in the will. Which seems entitled behavior to me. Honestly, why would anyone want a single dime from someone who abused them so badly??? I know I wouldn’t!. Not a cent!!!
Mostly, this evil “daughter “was jealous of Joan’ s fame and career. She hated Joan for not helping her to become as famous, as Joan was. So , she decided to get notoriety by becoming a traitor. She wrote this book to get money and fame. I wish someone would reinstate Joan Crawford good name . And evil adopted daughter to be shamed . It is so unfair,that this evil carries this beautiful last name .
It's crazy that no one pointed out that she was literally the ONLY one who said these things. No one else who also lived in the same house during her childhood corroborated her story. The fact that such lies are perpetrated shows people like Amber Heard got role models
I’ve watched this years ago and didn’t enjoy it, however with time and age I got the feeling that Larry King had a great respect for Joan. Christina seems to have been a difficult child when little. Talking back to a parent was a big no,no. She was obviously spoilt. The twins were obviously loving and no trouble. Strange we have never heard from them.
She tries to deflect it about being about the money saying she didn't make any money off the movie but gets busted and admits she go money for the rights
It's sad to watch this. I've seen many interviews of hers over the decades and each of her stories change. Pretty pathetic to make a living off getting to do paid interviews, getting paid to write a book and now a musical about a parent who simply wanted to give a child a better life. She did not even know how old Joan was when she died. Doesn't know her own siblings. Joan was right to cut her off. She knew Christina was writing a vindictive book.
JC may not have been the best parent but she APPRECIATED HER FANS!! Seeing her on a NYC street 35 years ago, with my polite request ; she stopped and walked to me to sign an autograph and she signed THANK YOU with her name. She was older but still breathtaking and magnificently groomed. She would stand out in a crowd of thousands.
Larry King is a much better interviewer than Piers Morgan
Totally agree with you. NO one comes close to him
Thanks for posting this.. always wanted to see it.
I only wrote the book for my family, I never intended it to be published, so I sent it to my famous writer friends in New York. - wtf??? that makes no sense
Exactly: maybe she thinks the whole world is as simple-minded as she is?
Totally agree!
So many of these star's kids and stars say this type of thing. They think exaggerating is not lying.
And she admitted she was very stubborn and obstreperous (her words) and the twins weren’t . And the twins said she was extremely loving and a great mother. So I’ve always wondered if Christina knew how to push her mom’s buttons, and knew how her mother was, why? Why push your mom’s buttons all the time to bring out the worst in her. That never made sense to me
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In 1979 I met Joan Crawford's personal helper who worked for Crawford for many years. I video taped a 35 minute interview with her. She had a much different perspective on "Mommy dearest". I would like to publish this. I wrote Access Hollywood, but have not heard back. Many people would be interested.
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On utube there is a 1960 audio of a radio interview of Christina. It is VERY revealing. After hearing it I thought, 'If only this interview had been re-released when the book and film came out.'
Here on TH-cam there is a wonderful tribute to Joan Crawford from actress Ann Blyth ( still alive at age 96) where Ann Blyth pays tribute to her friend and co-star from Mildred Pierce.
Larry King was absolutely the best at interviewing.
I'm an adoptive mother with bios as well. I don't know Crawford movies, or her daughter, never seen the movie or read the book. It came up on my feed. All i know is that raising a child from adoption, even though I got( 2) from birth, they have serious issues. It is hard. I'm not saying abuse is at all right, AT ALL... but I also know my adoptive daughter is very manipulative and lies VERY easily for attention. It has been a long and extremely stressful path, until school staff experienced the same, there was SO MUCH judgement. That's my perspective for what it's worth. Not taking either side.
I totally believe you. Had such an example of a pathologically lying adopted child in closer surrounding too. Its not always just Black and white.
She states in this twice that Joan beat her with the wire hangers but told Joy Bayhar years later that that was exaggerated in the film and that Joan actually didn't beat her with the hanger.
her stories about so many things changed so much with each interview she gave. She could not keep track of all her lies.
That’s why multiple multiple people filmed years later that were around when she was a kid said she was a liar even back then… it’s hard to keep lies straight but she spent her entire adult life trashing Joan Crawford and making money off her cold dead shoulders…
Tina is a despicable liar!! She makes me ill.
I’ve never been a Joan Crawford fan,but I’ve picked up enough,about her,over the years,to believe that she adopted a viper.
She’s so giddy and so flippant about what is portrayed to be horrific abuse. I went through horrible abuse as a child, and I am unable to talk about it with almost anybody. I certainly wouldn’t go on national television with such levity, giggling, jokes, etc. I don’t like to make anybody out to be untruthful about such a grave accusation as child abuse, but there’s just something not right about this woman.
Alfred Steele did NOT die from a fall down the stairs. He died of a heart attack.
Christina: "I moved out when I was 18 years old and never went back."
Also Christina: I was shocked that I was disinherited in her will. I very much had a relationship with her as an adult. I was a caretaker for her.
So? You can move out and distance yourself while also taking care of a parent in their later age
She’s just lying and lying…
@@adrianahalmi3337 right, if she was telling the truth her story would not change and it does. It's very suspicious she waited until her mom was gone and she was broke then said she wrote it as a diary , yet she sent to to people who where publishers to read. Makes no sense
Sounds like 1 was jealous of 1s sisters
Just read so many of the comments, and I am so glad!! I absolutely adore Joan Crawford. She is one of the most incredible, unrecognized actresses of all time. I didn't know what to think of her daughters book or accusations. Now I feel better because I just couldn't identify Joan as the way her daughter described her. Thank you all for sharing your wise comments.
I feel so sorry for Joan Crawford. She was a pioneer for women the Hollywood's golden age, and with her later rolls proved women were still relevent after hitting a certain age. She clawed her way to the top, became successful, rich, then when she couldn't have children took matters in her own hands and adopted. She seems to have done the best she could despite the fact she was under intense pressure from Hollywood. It's such a sad thing to me she is most remembered for "Mommy Dearest" and not her contributions to cinema...
I don't know whether these allegations against JC are true or not, but the problem with ' Tell-All ' books that are published only AFTER the subjects are dead, is that the dead cannot defend themselves...Or file suit for liable/slander...
Larry is such a masterful interviewer
Before, Christina mentioned that Joan never laid a finger on the twins. But in this video she mentions that the twins did had physical discipline done on them by Joan.
She sells it well, but I recently re-read MOMMIE DEAREST for the first time in years and I stumbled across something I had never noticed before. Christina claims that one evening she was playing bartender for one of her mother's dates, and when she opened the front door and saw a half-naked gypsy man with an earring and a bald head, she slammed the door and ran to her mother's room.
Joan told her the man's name was Yul Brynner and he was filming THE KING AND I and must have come from the studio in his costume.
One word: IMPOSSIBLE.
She makes it very clear later in the book that she was shipped off to Chadwick school at age ten. Which would have been in 1949. THE KING AND I didn't even hit BROADWAY until 1951 and aside from his vacation Yul Brynner played every night for three years. So the very earliest he could have been in Hollywood filming the movie would have been maybe 1954 or 1955, by which time Christina claimed she never went home again except for a trip to Europe after Crawford married Al Steele in 1955.
There is NO WAY she could have been at home on the day she claims that Brynner showed up for a date with her mother and at any rate her mother was just on the verge of marrying another man.
Would she have written the book if she inherited something?
Wow! Keep the videos coming. Muchas gracias :-)
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I wish someone would ask Christina two questions: why did you keep talking to your mom after you turned 18, and why did you wait until after she died to write the book? why not write the book when you're 30?
Trying to keep an open mind, especially coming from an abusive childhood, but to accuse her mother of murdering her husband with no basis whatsoever is strange.
Plus it’s documented that he suffered a heart attack.
As with most cases of "two sides of a story," the truth is usually somewhere in the middle.
For a brief moment, Joe Esposito dated Christina Crawford. The story goes......Elvis had ben puffing on a cigar and Christina continued to tickle him in an attempt to get more direct attention. When Elvis didn't respond how she wanted she threw a drink in his face (at close range). His drink and cigar went all over his face. He proceeded to throw her out of his house. He apologized to the others in his home and said "Man, I'm sorry, I wasn't raised to treat a woman like that. She's crazy.....I don't know what's wrong with her." Also, in 1978, Christina was disinherited by Joan. She then wrote "Mommy Dearest".
She crazy rude and liar!
I’m three minutes into this and I’m already having a hard time believing her. She says she “didn’t intend for it to become a book or a success” but sent the diary off to her friends who were writers in New York? Why do that when you’re saying you were keeping the diary for personal reasons.
I saw Christina on another program, she tends to change her story.
Supposedly at the time the movie came out, instead of being taken seriously and as a drama people in theaters were busting -up laughing at the violent outbursts portrayed.
Do you visit your mother's grave? NO, NEVER, WHY WOULD I ? Is she buried next to you're step dad ? YES, UNFORTUNATELY. Wow, even after all these years she is still FUMING WITH HATRED FOR HER MOM. So sad.
People who say Joan Crawford was abusive is wrong there is no proof. Even the twin sisters said there was no abuse.
She sold the rights with no say in the movie?!
She sold the rights because she wanted money.
I just watched this. I get the feeling Larry isn’t ‘buying’ her story.
Love Joan Crawford!
Incredible actress and beauty! 🥰
I believed Christina for years. Until I started to notice the contradictions in her story. If she is lying about her mother, that is truly shameful. From what I've heard and read by people who were there is that Joan was strict, she disciplined her kids, but she was not abusive. She gave her kids everything but didn't teach them to be entitled with it. Joan came from absolutely nothing. She wasn't born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Maybe that's why Tina rebelled so much. She wanted it all without earning it or being grateful.
She's said two different story's
Her brother wasn't hit as much as her and now she says her brother was treated worse
Reading the comments gave me the assurance that I'm not the only one who questions Christina's honesty. I have many doubts about a grown woman who says she "never" loved her mother. It's instinctual, and it's part of what makes child abuse so profoundly sad.
Coming from an alcoholic and abusive home myself I can say that I don't know how much of this is true. Seems like there are some contradictions such as Christina Crawford saying that Joan Crawford rarely left the house. That is not true as Joan Crawford traveled extensively, even in her later years.
She keeps contradicting herself through the whole interview. She says she supposes the twin girls were adopted, then says with absolute certainty they were all bought. She says she doesn’t have a first memory then says but my very first memory is being on set. She said nobody paid for her boarding school, then said her step father did. It’s like she says stuff for drama then immediately thinks the truth sounds more dramatic than the lie and changes it. I can’t believe people backed her during this. I find it really hard to believe anything she’s saying.
I've always seen it reported that Alfred Steele died of a heart attack. I think Joan Crawford may very well have been troubled and she likely was hard on the children. Some of what Christina says rings true. But not all of it, and nowhere have I ever seen it suggested that Joan Crawford pushed her husband down the stairs. It was irresponsible to let that stand. Her acting at first as if she didn't know she had younger siblings was ludicrous, too.
Christina liedabout her mother and everything!
The twins said Christina is full of crap.
Cœur d'Alène is the name french gave to the tribe not how the tribe called themselves
Bios indicate Steele died of a heart attack and was found next to his bed. NOTHING was ever stated about falling down stairs, suspicious circumstances, or bruises/breaks from a fall. So, what OTHER lies is she telling?
I have always been on the fence about all of the content of her book. Her immediate response to the question about was the movie accurate: “I didn’t get any residuals from it” bumped me off that fence! MONEY, MONEY, MONEY Her truth may not be THE truth, “recollections may vary”.
Amen. Christina is like the person who walks into a hotel, pulls down her pants and craps all over the lobby carpet in front of everyone. Later, she goes around telling everyone how "mean" the hotel staff were, throwing her out "for no good reason at all." Leaving out the vital part about what she did that led up to it. Christina's contradictions over the years, and her ridiculous assertion in later years that Joan was a murderer who killed Alfred Steele, show what a publicity-hungry money grubbing monster she is.
And now she's making a musical of Mommie Dearest I hear. How does one make a musical of child abuse? This woman is a couple french fries off from a Happy Meal!
Big time. She felt entitled to what her mother worked hard to achieve. Christina Crawford is a sociopath.
I was abused by my teachers aide and it was difficult for me to talk about it I'm a real survivor of abuse this woman is not telling the truth this is a money grab I don't brag about my abuse I don't joke about it its sad how some people go to such lengths to get money I don't like the fact that I was abused as a child it was back in the 2000s in that decade abuse was not taken seriously in that time I agree Joan was not the perfect mom but I know that Tina is a spiteful vindictive person. Nuff said.
Myrna Loy & Joan met as chorus girls in 1925, were stars together @ MGM a decade later, remained neighbours & friends for life decades later in Manhattan. One of the highlights of Myrna's wonderful memoirs is her absolute takedown of Christina. Myrna turned to the stage in the '60's, travelled in a touring company of Barefoot in the Park. Christina was in the company. Despite marrying her director, she still managed to get fired from the production - Myrna said she was impossible to work with & already displaying her resentment of her mother. By the time Joan died, Myrna refused to acknowledge Christina @ her mother's memorial. Sadly, Christina established celebrity parental abuse as an industry, many have followed in her footsteps - Bette Davis had to deal with it during her lifetime. Bing Crosby, Lex Barker, Joan were all posthumously accused so no defense was possible. Christina won the lotto when Joan adopted her, since she could not sustain a career of her own.
My sons are 8 years apart. An eight+ year old child remembers everything in their childhood. When my sons talk they remind each other of events and situations, especially the older one.
I think something is terribly wrong with Christina and that she was madly jealous(and is to this day) of her sisters.
I totally agree.
It has always amazed me that, for someone who hates her mother so much, Christina Crawford sure has no problem keeping the last name Crawford, even after marrying twice. You would think that she would want to have no connection with her mother at all. Something about her seems very off to me. In this interview, she admits that she never loved her mother. I wonder if she is a sociopath. Not being funny, I'm serious. She certainly comes off that way in this interview, and it would explain a lot. Even Myrna Loy, in her autobiography, ripped Christina Crawford after working with her on Broadway. And if Myrna Loy doesn't like you, something isn't right!
I have a feeling she cashed in on the fame and notoriety. She seems disingenuous. I am a trauma and abuse survivor; she seems bitter about being disinherited and this was her revenge. And Joan's voice was already silenced.
Wait a minute..in one interview she says she saw her mother's dead body because she loved her..in another because she wanted to see that she was really gone..in another she says the book was written when she was sick but still alive..now says she wrote after her death..then she also says the movie was completely wrong especially the wire hanger scene and nothing like her mom and she got no money..in this one the wire hanger scene was pretty accurate...im confused..the interviews r all on utube so...yeah. " if celebs did this today it would be front page news" r u kidding me? Hellywood is filled with all sorts of debauchery most don't know anything about!
Wonder why Joan cut her out of her will? She pretends she doesn't know why, but she has to know.
Larry King was a treasure
Question ? why did she take a drag queen dressed as joan around with her to publicize the book. to me this is suspicious and detracts from the gravity of her claims.
The other daughter of Joan Crawford said that their mother was strict, but very loving and mommie dearest was a big lie. Christina wanted to become an actress, but failed. She always envied and hated Joan. Happens with many adopted kids who grew up with complex vengeance feelings towards the person who had it all
The love of money is the root to all evil!
I hope this goes to Christina which describes her perfectly.
I don't like to watch this interview. Simply because our beloved Joan Crawford had no opportunity to defend herself. I always like to believe there are three sides to a story. Christina's side, Joan's side and the truth. Unfortunately we'll never know the whole truth. May Joan Crawford rest in peace.
Wow!!! She just implied her mother killed her last husband Alfred, smh
She was jealous of her mother, she never could become the star that her mother was. This was her only way to become known.
Especially crazy considering he died of a heart attack not a fall down the stairs
She's a liar. It is well know he died from a heart attack. And why would she even imply something like that. She has no proof or reason to even say that!
you know, I saw an interview with an actress that said Christina was ALWAYS a liar and a problem. She had accused some guy of sexual assault (rape) and come to find out she was STILL a virgin. The storys went on and on like that. Even the wire hanger thing was just an argument
And the fact she LIED and NO one believed her says something, too.
If I remember correctly, there were 2 other children growing up in that house, 1 of whom gave an interview, denying much of that book.
3 other children …a son & twin daughters.
Mike Douglas interviewed her on his TV Show in 1978 and said he didn't believe a word of it. He had Joan on his show many times and always promoted Christina's career on the show.
Im hearing inconsitancies in her story. First in another older interview she said she viewed her moms body to say goodbye and she loved her. Here she said it was to make sure she was dead. Also in that interview she said the hangers she was suppose to hang the clothes on were wooden. Here she says crocheted. Also in that interview she said they had good times.
Stated in another interview on Mike Douglas she loved her mother. Also stated other sisters adopted after her, were not abused.
I was hit with a hairbrush, I was also smacked when I answered back or was rude or had an attitude. Kids do that. What is now classed as abuse was often in those days.
Just finished watching a compilation of interviews and written statements from friends and her twins refuting a lot of what she has written and said about her mom, and attempting to shine up the tarnished image Christine perpetuated. I believe there were things that happened, loss of temper, control, etc. It is unfortunate that Christine never had children, as we are better able to understand the stress and humanity of our parents. I too had similar experiences growing up, but when I became a parent I understood some things better. Parents are under pressure and sometimes lose their shit. Things we magnify as children, we are better able to put into perspective as adults. That is not to say there couldn't be better behavior, but parents are also a product of their own upbringing and role models, and doing the best they can with what they know. Also back then, physical punishment was much more prevalent, expected, spare the rod and spoil the child mentality. It doesn't excuse everything, but she may have been able to give some grace for fallibility and humanity. According to her friends and family, she was a loving, warm generous, charitable person. A saint no, but probably not the devil that she was made out to be by Christina, which made Christina money and fame. It is a shame there wasn't better relationship.
Christine is an evil. You can tell after watching her in this interview. How can you have a good relationship with an evil?
One day book is gonna be written, I hope , proving adopted daughter lies.
Rest in peace , Joan.
Many of Crawford's friends and co-workers, including Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, Myrna Loy, Katharine Hepburn, Cesar Romero, Gary Gray, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (Crawford's first husband), and Crawford's two other younger daughters, Cathy and Cindy, denounced the book, categorically denying any abuse.
On July 20, 1998, one of Joan Crawford's other adopted children, Cathy Crawford LaLonde, filed a lawsuit against Christina Crawford for "defamation of character". LaLonde stated in her lawsuit that during the 20th-anniversary book tour of Mommie Dearest, Christina publicly claimed to interviewers that LaLonde and her twin sister, Cynthia, were not biological sisters, and that their adoption was never legal. LaLonde stated neither claim by Christina was true, and attached copies of the twin girls' birth certificates and adoption documentation to the lawsuit. The lawsuit was later settled out of court for $5,000 plus court costs.
She very much intended for this to be published . Her mother couldn’t defend herself . I believe Joan was very strict especially with Christina who was the oldest . In another interview with joy Behar ( who I don’t like ) she says that the twins were not twins but Joan passed them off as twins . What’s the truth ? Here she’s not saying that . I can’t tell if Christina tells the entire truth or if she elaborates stories for an emotional effect
She was sued by one of the twins (one was deceased) & won. That's one of the reasons I don't believe Christina....
AS others point out: Crawford was a perfectionist, perhaps a bit OCD & an alcoholic: I'm sure it wasn't all roses - but Christina is lying or simply disturbed enough to believe things happened that simply did not....
Interesting watch
Bette Davis's daughter wrote a book about her, and Groucho Marx's son Arthur wrote a book about him too 🤔 Christina reminds me a bit of Megan Markle's sister.
Even Bette Davis who had feud with Joan Crawford denounced the book.
"I was not Miss Crawford’s biggest fan, but, wisecracks to the contrary, I did and still do respect her talent. What she did not deserve was that detestable book written by her daughter. I’ve forgotten her name. Horrible."
I want to hear from the other children
3 others say she lied.
RIP Joan, we love you.
Never knew it was going to be published? Indeed!
Sounds like maybe her birth mother could've been a woman of the night. I wonder if Christina was overly spoiled and expected to be the center of everything based on Joan's filming career and began watching and mocking her films characters that she watched while Joan wasn't present, to feel closer to her. Maybe Christine became vindictive unaware of the real world to feel some strange sense of control and worth, hence her novel. Unsettling that she doesn't conceive whether her siblings were adopted or not, what is real or hypothesis.
Why would the police officer who spoke to her after her mother supposedly tried to strangle her say that she needed to grow up fast and if it happened again, SHE would go to juvenile hall? Half of that story is missing. The half where Christina did something that supposedly could put her in juvenile hall. That the incidents basically stopped after that says something. And I suspect it wasn't because her mother was afraid of her own rage. Other sources who knew both state that Christina was stunningly stubborn and would refuse to do anything anyone asked her to do. That and other comments make it appear that she harbored hostility and jealousy toward her mother, wanting a great deal of attention while she herself treated her mother with disdain. It seems Christina has a no-fault attitude toward her own behavior, which comes across as a power play. One supposedly bad thing her mother did that I remember from the movie was that they both swam as fast as they could across the pool, apparently in a race. Her mother, being much older, was faster. Christina felt this was an example of how her mother was self-centered; she should have instead purposely lost the race. I was quite young when I saw that movie and was puzzled by the attitude as I wouldn't have had any such notion myself. The question to me was what was up with Christina that she would adopt such a notion. Joan was probably somewhat abusive, but by her twin daughters' recollection, Christina lived in her own world that didn't quite match reality. And her other daughters also state that Joan didn't spend everything on herself; they present a long list of people she helped and organizations she donated to, usually asking that her name not be attached.
Al Steele died of a heart attack. Christina should be ashamed of things she's saying !!!
Something about her I've always thought I feel Chris is or was Jealous of her mother
Remember, Christina was also an actress ;)
I am so confused, I'm beginning to think about it & wonder if she had got oodles of money from the Will, would she still have written the book.
Also, did the other adoptees, get anything from their Mothers Will?
Christina and her brother were specifically written out of the will, while the two younger adopted daughters did inherit. Joan also left a great deal to charity.
I just finished this book and it seems like this lady was angry because she didnt get everything she wanted from Joan as a teenager / young adult
Hang on (pardon the pun)..Christina says she was appalled by the movie because she is intimating it was 'overly dramatised'...but in the next breath she describes, almost exactly, what happened with the hangers, rose bush and hauling her out of bed etc as in the movie...so what was different?...There does seem to be a slight underlying jealousy of a sort from Christina about Joan. She never amounted to anything as an actress, and sent journals of her writings of her childhood to her writer/publisher friends but says she didn't intend for them to be published?...Come on....I'm not saying Joan was perfect and probably drank a bit too much at times etc, I'm not saying she scolded the children at times, and although I don't know as I wasn't there, I feel Christina is maybe over milking this cash cow of a story. Of course child abuse is wrong, however, the other children (the twins) do not recall Joan being violent with them so it is hard to know what is the total truth.....Larry asks her what did she like about Joan....only mentioning one thing and then goes on to attack Joan again about her not being educated, only to let us all know how smart she is and that Joan was envious of it...eish...Joan was so 'harsh' and 'cold' that when she was drying and knew of it...she made provisions for her beloved dog to be taken care of. Christina doesn't even know that Joan had cancer...I know that and I wasn't her daughter....
Exactly! And who paid for Christina's education? And Joan was jealous of her daughter's education? Then why would she send her daughter to a very good boarding school? Does that make sense to you?
What a waste of a life time, trying to convince the world of her exaggerated claims. We survivors are angry, carry fears, resentments, BUT there is human compassion and love towards those who abused us. Doesn't mean we'd accept abusive treatment again, it means you can love the individual but hate what they did to us. You don't have to convince others of anything.
I’m conflicted...I can see this happening but you can sense the venom in her and she continues to use the Crawford name...she’s intelligent...why not completely break from her and give up her name
The Crawford name sells books.
$$$$$$$
I don't believe her. I don't believe most baby boomers for that matter. She's bitter.
As much as I do not believe that Crawford was meant to be a mother, as she was self obsessed and narcissistic, many of the fables Christina recounts are so difficult to believe. The story about being told by social services to "buck up" or she'd be sent to juvenile detention makes no sense. Mom attacks daughter but daughter must be punished for that by being sent away? I am a social worker and not even 100 years ago would the kid be put into a juvenile detention center for being the victim. A residential home, yes. Foster care. Yes. She would not have been punished or even be threatened with punishment. So many pieces of her story are unbelievable. I believe that there was tension and there was no love lost when Crawford died..but oddly, the twin children refute all of this, and they were there when the "death scene" happened, being not "much younger" that Christina but only several years. They have denied that there mother was violent, toward anyone, including themselves yet Christina says that those twins were also hit. It is a puzzle that makes no sense and cannot be put together. She made money, though, and will continue to....and that was her goal...plus making her monster, screen icon, into a monster.
Notice she never names the "quite famous" writers who allegedly encouraged her to publish the piece of trash about jer mother. Couldn't they lend some veracity to her sad, sick tale? What a grifter.
Look at interviews with the twins. Then you'll see the bigger picture.
Joans other children and her pa claim christinas allegations are very much untrue
I dont think anyone believed Christina was 100% right about her story Mommie Dearest.
Every family feud has two sides and both sides arent accurate, in most cases.
I don't really know what happened. I do find it strange that Joan Crawford isn't alive to tell her side. When stories are one-sided I don't know if I believe it. You really need evidence in all cases. Joan Crawford is not here to defend herself. People write books all the time and they add stuff to sensationalize the book.
Please, she sent it to be published. If it was like a diary she wouldn't have sent it to anyone
The other daughters said Joan was never like how Christina portrays her. I think Joan was firm and very disciplined and Christina comes from the generation who pushed against that and I think she was jealous and rebelled for the fame and money and to get back at her because they didn't get along.
She told slightly different story in a different interview. I think the whole thing is exaggerated. And dramatize
I believe it’s true Joan treated her badly, but I also believe Christina is very spiteful, jealous and vindictive. I also believe she was an incredibly difficult child to deal with, which of course is no excuse for abuse. I did read once though that Joan had to pay Christina’s rent for quite some time because her acting career wasn’t doing the greatest as an adult, and that’s why she didn’t get in the will. Which seems entitled behavior to me. Honestly, why would anyone want a single dime from someone who abused them so badly??? I know I wouldn’t!. Not a cent!!!
She was not abused. Quite the opposite.
Mostly, this evil “daughter “was jealous of Joan’ s fame and career.
She hated Joan for not helping her to become as famous, as Joan was.
So , she decided to get notoriety by becoming a traitor.
She wrote this book to get money and fame.
I wish someone would reinstate Joan Crawford good name .
And evil adopted daughter to be shamed .
It is so unfair,that this evil carries this beautiful last name .
It's crazy that no one pointed out that she was literally the ONLY one who said these things. No one else who also lived in the same house during her childhood corroborated her story. The fact that such lies are perpetrated shows people like Amber Heard got role models
I think She's overexaggerating and mad because her mom didn't leave her any money
Yeah, same with Bing Crosby’s kids too
Girl you had a good life wish i could been me , i had real abuse like seriously you was blessed ❤
Would she have written the book if she had inherited? I'm not saying she's lying but...... it does make me think!
She was a pain in the ass kid. U know the type. Hyper critical of Mom. My sister is like that.
She reminds me of Meghan Markle. Manipulating the facts. Liar.
Wasn’t Christina mainly away at boarding school?
Yep
I’ve watched this years ago and didn’t enjoy it, however with time and age I got the feeling that Larry King had a great respect for Joan. Christina seems to have been a difficult child when little. Talking back to a parent was a big no,no. She was obviously spoilt. The twins were obviously loving and no trouble. Strange we have never heard from them.
She tries to deflect it about being about the money saying she didn't make any money off the movie but gets busted and admits she go money for the rights
It's sad to watch this. I've seen many interviews of hers over the decades and each of her stories change. Pretty pathetic to make a living off getting to do paid interviews, getting paid to write a book and now a musical about a parent who simply wanted to give a child a better life. She did not even know how old Joan was when she died. Doesn't know her own siblings. Joan was right to cut her off. She knew Christina was writing a vindictive book.
I guess she even speaks out of envy and resent: just look at her, completely graceless.
Where did the wire hangers come from in the first place, Christina?????? Joan obviously wouldn't buy them.🤔🧐😖
So she claims all this abuse, calls Joan by her name,but goes by Christina Crawford... She hates Joan but loves the perks of her last name... smh
Good point!
I used to believe her, I don’t anymore.