The Impact of a Difficult Childhood on a Hollywood Legend’s Life
“I didn’t get to spend the kind of time with him that I think either he or I would have liked,” she reflected.
Growing up in Laurel Canyon, a bohemian hub of Los Angeles counterculture, she was surrounded by creativity—but also instability. Her childhood included molestation, witnessing her mother’s addiction, and enduring abuse from her mother’s partner. One traumatic incident involved being abused by a babysitter at just five years old, as she revealed in her memoir.
