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Originally posted by EuphorianSea
I think this may have been mentioned already but, apparently, Joan Crawford was incredibly abusive towards like two of her children. That's all I know though.
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That's correct. Her adoptive daughter Christina published a memoir after being disinherited by Joan together with her adoptive brother Christopher. She wrote that Joan was a drunken, abusive and sadistic mother.
To make use of the revelation as another way of dragging Joan, Bette commented by saying that she doesn't blame Joan's daughter at all and that Joan should've never even entered motherhood in the first place. Bette also said that as a mother she was never like that and doubted if her own children would even write a book about her of such thing.
But years after, her daughter Barbara Davis also went on to publish a memoir saying Bette was "a mean-spirited, wildly neurotic, profane and pugnacious boozer, who took out her anger at the world by abusing those close to her." Bette proceeded to disinherit her too.
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