![]() ![]() This ebook edition features an exclusive new introduction by the author, plus rare photographs from her personal collection and one hundred pages of revealing material not found in the original manuscript. She endured and survived, becoming the voice of so many other victims who suffered in silence, and giving them the courage to forge a productive life out of chaos. A fierce battle of wills, their relationship could be characterized as an ultimately successful, for Christina, struggle for independence. But at home, her lonely, controlling, even ruthless mother made her life a nightmare. It also shed light on the guarded world of Hollywood and stripped away the façade of Christina’s relentless, alcoholic abuser: her adoptive mother, movie star Joan Crawford.Ĭhristina was a young girl shown off to the world as a fortunate little princess. ![]() When Christina Crawford’s harrowing chronicle of child abuse was first published in 1978, it brought global attention to the previously closeted subject. In ‘Mommie Dearest,’ Faye Dunaway Channeled Joan Crawford at a Historic Bel Air Colonial That Just Hit the Market for the First Time in Decades By Lindsay Blake Ap5:09 pm PT Sothebys International Realty Associated Press Price 19. The 40th anniversary edition of the “shocking” #1 New York Times bestseller with an exclusive new introduction by the author (Los Angeles Times). ![]()
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