The one and only Mr Larry King. I always loved watching any interview he conducted no matter the subject. Anyone that was on his show had great respect for him as an interviewer. That seemed to put his subjects at ease and they divulged more than if they were with any other media personality. Mr King never had an intimidating bone in his personality and that was another factor that put his subjects at great ease. All hail the King!
Cristina is so jealous of Joan that during this interview she hated the fact that the producers turned toconcentrate on Joan rather than her as a child. But what does she expect? Joan's got star quality and Cristina isnt.
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
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.'
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.
@@leroymccoy9008 I saw the interviews with the other children (girls) and they both said they never were abused at all by their mother. They were expected to clean up their rooms, help in the kitchen with cleaning, and other household chores but never beaten or abused as Christina says she and her brother were....neither one of them ever saw any such thing. And neither of them felt close to Christina or the brother.
Christina tried to sue the twins saying they weren't even twins (wtf, ho?!). They showed their birth certificates and it proved Christina was lying. So it makes me think she's lied about it all.
Some people that worked for Joan, shunned Christina after the books release. They stated she exaggerated, and all out lied about Joan, saying that Christina wrote the book because she was angry at Joan for leaving her nothing in the will.
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.
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.
At the 11:32 mark, she mentions being hit with objects like "the famous hangers" yet, in the book itself, there's no mention of her being hit with hangers. "Shaking me by the hair of my head she screamed in my ear "No wire hangers! No wire hangers!" With one hand she pulled me by the hair and with the other she pounded my ears until they rang and I could hardly hear her screaming" I also remember another interview she gave where she said she was upset about the movie because the wire hanger scene did not happen the way they portrayed it and said she had not been beaten with hangers. This, among other things, is why I don't believe her. She changes her story far too often.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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?
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…
Christina Crawford was offered a free College Education from her mother and she dropped out, Joan Crawford helped Christina with her acting career.... Christina looked very happy with her Mother when she was an adult. Now she is living off her famous mother. Its very easy to write a book about your Mother when she is not around to defend herself.
My grandfather told me this one time and I know it is true: " there are THREE sides to every story: yours, mine and the truth". Listening to Christina , it occurs to me how we are only getting one-third of the story !
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.
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
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 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.
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
Interesting that Christina still uses the last name Crawford, which was Joan's stage name. Her real last name was LaSuer, but MGM insisted on Crawford because they felt LaSuer sounded too much like "sewer." You'd think Christina would distance herself from the stage name, yet here she is using it for recognition decades after Joan's death.
THANK YOU! This lady is lying her ass off. She says she wrote the book for family, which makes zero sense. But if that was the case, why was she sending it out to people?
Is that really a fair assessment considering it's the surname she was "known" as ALL of her life, seeing as Joan Crawford herself didn't go by her given surname "LeSuer"? I can understand what you mean about her having such a tumultuous relationship w/her mother why keep the same last name, but it's the name she's been known as & addressed as for decades, thus I'm sure it had to be a difficult decision for her & I think that's quite understandable🤷🏿♀️.
@@storiking650 That's what I thought too at first, until I remembered that Christina Crawford is divorced, and LaSuer is her birth last name. I'm almost 100% positive that Joan Crawford never legally changed her name. It's just hypocritical for her to publicly use a last name that's not really hers simply for fame based on her mother's stage name.
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.
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.
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.
I’m sure I am the only one that believes she should have come out with all of this while Joan Crawford was alive. I think she should have been allowed to defend herself. I watched the movie years ago and it was just graphic and terrifying. I just don’t think it is all true.
Interesting how interviews with the twins, who lived in the same house, recall no abuse, only a loving, mother who believed in discipline but no abuse.
We find it difficult to believe anything Christina says about her mother. How unfortunate that Joan is not around to defend herself. Daniele Amfitheatrof, the Hollywood film composer who scored a couple of Joan's films, spoke well of her as a person and as an actress.
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.
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.
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 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.
Here on UA-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.
Interesting that her brother, who supposedly suffered more than her, is not backing her up. She explains it with him being a private person. That's BS.
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.
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!
For years, I believed Christina and defended her. I no longer believe her. After listening to Myrna Loy and the Director of secret storm and other people who had dealings with her, I just don’t believe her anymore. The older I’ve gotten the less credibility I think she has. I think she’s a liar and that she lied to, build a reputation for herself and to make some money.
So her problem with the movie was that they made it about her movie star mother instead of making about a nobody like her? I think she sold her mothers memory for profit, doubled down on those claims and fabricated new ones. Hope it was all worth it
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.
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.
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
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.
In October 1965, she appeared in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park, with Myrna Loy, a friend of her mother, *before being fired*. She was considered a capable actress, but difficult to work with in the industry, described as 'stubborn' by Loy who stated in her autobiography Becoming and Unbecoming that "We didn't have any problems in Barefoot in the Park until she appeared. "The idea of Joan's daughter playing the role delighted me until I discovered how recalcitrant this child was...I've never known anyone like her, ever. Her stubbornness is really unbelievable. She would not do a single thing anyone told her to do it and she was horrid."
Incidentally, Christina's then boyfriend & later first husband Harvey Medlinsky (1931-2008) was the director of this production. According to Loy, her repeated complaints regarding Crawford's unprofessional behavior fell on deaf ears. Once Loy went over his head to the producers, Crawford was ultimately replaced.
I have been an adoptive mother and had a child with reactive attachment disorder. They are very difficult, manipulative and usually do not bond with anyone. They also tend to claim they were abused. I have never taken much this woman says to heart, as I can see RAD in her a mile off after what I have been through.
The one and only Mr Larry King. I always loved watching any interview he conducted no matter the subject. Anyone that was on his show had great respect for him as an interviewer. That seemed to put his subjects at ease and they divulged more than if they were with any other media personality. Mr King never had an intimidating bone in his personality and that was another factor that put his subjects at great ease. All hail the King!
Cristina is so jealous of Joan that during this interview she hated the fact that the producers turned toconcentrate on Joan rather than her as a child. But what does she expect? Joan's got star quality and Cristina isnt.
Larry King is a much better interviewer than Piers Morgan
Totally agree with you. NO one comes close to him
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
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
💯
Thanks for posting this.. always wanted to see it.
Nobody should ever denounce their parents in public like this. No wonder Joan disowned her
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.'
Larry King was absolutely the best at interviewing.
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 love to see the twins interviewed.
The last surviving twin died earlier this year. But both twins had given interviews and statements during their lives.
@@leroymccoy9008 I saw the interviews with the other children (girls) and they both said they never were abused at all by their mother. They were expected to clean up their rooms, help in the kitchen with cleaning, and other household chores but
never beaten or abused as Christina says she and her brother were....neither one of them ever saw any such thing. And neither of them felt close to Christina or the brother.
Their interview is out. Look it up. Tina lied.
Christina tried to sue the twins saying they weren't even twins (wtf, ho?!). They showed their birth certificates and it proved Christina was lying. So it makes me think she's lied about it all.
They have been interviewed and they both refuted what Christina said.
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.
Some people that worked for Joan, shunned Christina after the books release. They stated she exaggerated, and all out lied about Joan, saying that Christina wrote the book because she was angry at Joan for leaving her nothing in the will.
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.
Please email me through my website. I would like to speak with you regarding this.
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.
It's interesting how the further away Christine Crawford gets from this experience the meaner her memories become.
At the 11:32 mark, she mentions being hit with objects like "the famous hangers" yet, in the book itself, there's no mention of her being hit with hangers.
"Shaking me by the hair of my head she screamed in my ear "No wire hangers! No wire hangers!" With one hand she pulled me by the hair and with the other she pounded my ears until they rang and I could hardly hear her screaming"
I also remember another interview she gave where she said she was upset about the movie because the wire hanger scene did not happen the way they portrayed it and said she had not been beaten with hangers.
This, among other things, is why I don't believe her. She changes her story far too often.
As with most cases of "two sides of a story," the truth is usually somewhere in the middle.
I truly don’t know what to think about this.
Same.
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.
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.
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
I saw Christina on another program, she tends to change her story.
Alfred Steele did NOT die from a fall down the stairs. He died of a heart attack.
I just watched this. I get the feeling Larry isn’t ‘buying’ her story.
Well I suppose I am one of the very few that love the movie Trog.. I actually have the dvd.🤗
Same!
Yep 👍
Strange how history is about who writes it
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
Wow! Keep the videos coming. Muchas gracias :-)
Thumb up
She sold the rights with no say in the movie?!
She sold the rights because she wanted money.
People who are abused by parents find it very difficult to talk about it. This woman sounds so laid back about it all
Because she's a con.
Laughing about how she told her mom she did a movie with stuffed animals and got hung up on? Does not seem like an abuse victim.
Because she's horrible to everyone and a complete liar
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.
Alfred Steele did not fall down any stairs. He died of a heart attack.
Joan's other kids state she was strict, but loving....
This was the Era of the "tell all" 📚 books 😉
Until Prince Harry released SPARE last year.
That backfired.
Larry is such a masterful interviewer
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.
Wonder why Joan cut her out of her will? She pretends she doesn't know why, but she has to know.
Even Bette Davis took up for Joan Crawford when the book came out!
That says it all, my friend because it is a well known fact that they hated each other!🤣
Then, Bette's daughter turned around and wrote a book about her.
That says a lot!
@@triciajohansen3027 yep.
Christina started an industry, Lana Turner & Bing Crosby's kids have all made $ accusing the dead.
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?
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.
Christina Crawford was offered a free College Education from her mother and she dropped out, Joan Crawford helped Christina with her acting career.... Christina looked very happy with her Mother when she was an adult. Now she is living off her famous mother. Its very easy to write a book about your Mother when she is not around to defend herself.
My grandfather told me this one time and I know it is true: " there are THREE sides to every story: yours, mine and the truth". Listening to Christina , it occurs to me how we are only getting one-third of the story !
Love Joan Crawford!
Incredible actress and beauty! 🥰
Love Joan Crawford ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
🎉🎉The Best 🎉🎉
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.
She likes her Crawford last name
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.
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 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.
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
Interesting that Christina still uses the last name Crawford, which was Joan's stage name. Her real last name was LaSuer, but MGM insisted on Crawford because they felt LaSuer sounded too much like "sewer." You'd think Christina would distance herself from the stage name, yet here she is using it for recognition decades after Joan's death.
THANK YOU! This lady is lying her ass off. She says she wrote the book for family, which makes zero sense. But if that was the case, why was she sending it out to people?
Is that really a fair assessment considering it's the surname she was "known" as ALL of her life, seeing as Joan Crawford herself didn't go by her given surname "LeSuer"? I can understand what you mean about her having such a tumultuous relationship w/her mother why keep the same last name, but it's the name she's been known as & addressed as for decades, thus I'm sure it had to be a difficult decision for her & I think that's quite understandable🤷🏿♀️.
@@storiking650 That's what I thought too at first, until I remembered that Christina Crawford is divorced, and LaSuer is her birth last name. I'm almost 100% positive that Joan Crawford never legally changed her name. It's just hypocritical for her to publicly use a last name that's not really hers simply for fame based on her mother's stage name.
Interesting point.
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.
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.
Others talked about it. Truth is hard for many.
He looking at her like. Girl you know u lying.😂😂😂😂
Yeah, idk if i buy this.
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.
I’m sure I am the only one that believes she should have come out with all of this while Joan Crawford was alive. I think she should have been allowed to defend herself. I watched the movie years ago and it was just graphic and terrifying. I just don’t think it is all true.
Interesting how interviews with the twins, who lived in the same house, recall no abuse, only a loving, mother who believed in discipline but no abuse.
People need to understand that just because a person disciplined their child, does not mean that they abused them. Just saying.
@@christy7698 I agree. Very well stated and the truth.
We find it difficult to believe anything Christina says about her mother. How unfortunate that Joan is not around to defend herself. Daniele Amfitheatrof, the Hollywood film composer who scored a couple of Joan's films, spoke well of her as a person and as an actress.
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.
Cœur d'Alène is the name french gave to the tribe not how the tribe called themselves
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.
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!
One of my favorite actresses of all time old Hollywood glamour nothing she can say can take away my impression of.Joan Crawford 😃⭐✨ ❤️
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.
maybe the truth is in the middle
Never knew it was going to be published? Indeed!
Here on UA-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.
This is the first, among other things, I have heard coming from Christina. She has suspicions about Steele's death? That's a pretty bold accusation.
Exactly. Her motivations are pretty obvious and truth telling ain't one of them.
Christina is a nut case😲😲😲😲😞😞😲😲
Interesting that her brother, who supposedly suffered more than her, is not backing her up. She explains it with him being a private person. That's BS.
We just gonna gloss over the fact that she said Joan murdered Al Steele?..
That's because she is lying.
Another one of Christina's lies. Gosh it's almost as if she's a pathological liar.
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.
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!
People who say Joan Crawford was abusive is wrong there is no proof. Even the twin sisters said there was no abuse.
Seems to be more angry and resentful than anything else.
I want to hear from the other children
3 others say she lied.
Interesting watch
For years, I believed Christina and defended her. I no longer believe her. After listening to Myrna Loy and the Director of secret storm and other people who had dealings with her, I just don’t believe her anymore. The older I’ve gotten the less credibility I think she has. I think she’s a liar and that she lied to, build a reputation for herself and to make some money.
So her problem with the movie was that they made it about her movie star mother instead of making about a nobody like her? I think she sold her mothers memory for profit, doubled down on those claims and fabricated new ones. Hope it was all worth it
Look at interviews with the twins. Then you'll see the bigger picture.
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.
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.
Joans other children and her pa claim christinas allegations are very much untrue
Nobody will ever know the full truth....Joan Crawford never had a chance to defend herself which isn't very fair.
Reactive attachment disorder? My friend adopted 7 children and one is like this. The other 6 all love their mom and dad.
Wow!! Doesn't she look like she could pass for Glenn Close daughter?
Stated in another interview on Mike Douglas she loved her mother. Also stated other sisters adopted after her, were not abused.
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
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.
Well christinas book came out after Joans death.
Shes not able to defend herself.😮
Remember, Christina was also an actress ;)
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
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.
In October 1965, she appeared in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park, with Myrna Loy, a friend of her mother, *before being fired*. She was considered a capable actress, but difficult to work with in the industry, described as 'stubborn' by Loy who stated in her autobiography Becoming and Unbecoming that "We didn't have any problems in Barefoot in the Park until she appeared. "The idea of Joan's daughter playing the role delighted me until I discovered how recalcitrant this child was...I've never known anyone like her, ever. Her stubbornness is really unbelievable. She would not do a single thing anyone told her to do it and she was horrid."
I loved Myrna lot she was lovely in the thin man
Incidentally, Christina's then boyfriend & later first husband Harvey Medlinsky (1931-2008) was the director of this production. According to Loy, her repeated complaints regarding Crawford's unprofessional behavior fell on deaf ears. Once Loy went over his head to the producers, Crawford was ultimately replaced.
I have been an adoptive mother and had a child with reactive attachment disorder. They are very difficult, manipulative and usually do not bond with anyone. They also tend to claim they were abused. I have never taken much this woman says to heart, as I can see RAD in her a mile off after what I have been through.
I can totally see this. There are two sides to EVERY story!
It’s narcissism classic symptom