![]() ![]() ![]() “There was no autopsy,” added Christina, austerely. She was implying Joan was a real-life villainess fresh out of the type of film noir Joan often played the heroine of. Crawford graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles, after spending nearly fourteen years as an actress in television, theater, and film. ![]() “I know what Mommie was capable of in a state of rage.”Įek. Christina Crawford is the 1 New York Timesbestselling author of the memoirs Mommie Dearest and Survivor, as well as the women’s history book Daughters of the Inquisition. “I didn’t believe it was an accident,” she asserts, knowingly. In the doc, Tina describes how Steele was found dead at the bottom of the grand stairway in the house. And she elaborated.Īnd what she said effectively wiped away what all the apologists have conjectured for years–that mommie merely drove Steele to a heart attack by making him batty and anxious. Well, last night I saw her show Surviving Mommie Dearest, which includes a documentary with Christina telling stories about Mommie’s manic manipulations and abuses, then coming out to field a few questions from the audience. When I cornered her after her talk to ask for some expansion on the horror she’d hinted at, Christina–signing books at the time–replied, “I’m doing this now.” I’ve written about how at an event years ago, Christina Crawford suggested that mommie dearest Joan Crawford killed her last hubby, Pepsi head Alfred Steele, but Christina didn’t get to elaborate as to just what she meant by that. ![]()
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