Mommie Dearest with Christina Crawford - Gwissues

Christina Crawford talks about the abusive relationship with her famous adopted mother Joan Crawford and the loss in translation between Mommie Dearest the book vs. Mommie Dearest the movie.
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[@alarahillton1343]

God bless her and yes many of us identify with her having had an abusive Mother , and/ or father. I’m glad she wrote the book! I hope she is doing well.

[@eugenekozma2697]

I agree.

[@HeyMimiGirl]

I love this courageous lady, for her willingness to speak up for children who have to endure the childhood that she did

[@eugenekozma2697]

I agree.i am glad she spoke up for children.

[@donatellamatera766]

many of these comments are the reason why kids are never believed and the reason why I consider part of humanity as it is made of hypocrites and weak, shallow sheeps looking for heroes and gods. I was abused by my mom in a similar way and I don't have a career too. Of course, I've been destroyed in my childhood. And people still believes my mother was a great woman. Of course they were not assisting to the violence. Moreover, what really makes me sick is reading people judging.

[@Acalamity]

Same here, in all ways.

[@TheNYgolfer]

Many of Joan's friends have come out in later years confirming that they witnessed instances of abuse described by Christina, including Joan's mother.Joan learned from her mistakes and later on when she adopted Cathy and Cynthia Joan was much more understanding and sympathetic as a mother.There is a learning curve involved in parenting for many people.I don't think it's fair to call Christina a "flat out liar".Those are strong words and require strong evidence in order to be taken seriously

[@jako3214]

I have NO doubt in my mind this woman was super on point, has a soul, smart, educated truthful and just...I'm done. :/ Polar opposite of Joan which is why she tormented her. Totally consistent in every interview w/ her demeanor, tone, vibe etc etc... I can sniff out a b-shit artist in 2 seconds (like Bette Davis daughter). Yes you had the awful stroke at 42 but even you're dealing w/ health issues 'now' (dunno) you're almost 78 and outlived that demonic c*nt of a woman. You rock and love you Christina!

[@anearthlinganecdotes6098]

Dei Baadu...

[@Kalamolng]

I believe her! I mean Lana Tuners daughter confessed that this happened & so did alot of people! Joan was bipolar & alot of time Bipolars choose to rage on certain people because they would pacify their rage.

[@alexandreintouch1847]

legendary christina Crawford LOL !!!

[@ShawnPlusOne]

The update is Christina sued the estate and she and her brother Christopher finally did receive part of Joan's estate..Later Christopher died tragically..That is a shame.I believe Christina although I don't know if I could write a book about my parents who were very abusive..I just couldn't.

[@kristopherwilhite2679]

Someone needed to expose child abuse as she did!

[@kimberleeturner8475]

She won 50,000 and lost it to the twins in their lawsuit against Christina for spreading false information to the public about them. She told the public they were not twins but children who both had dark hair and eyes. Their birth certificate told a different story.

[@BunnySlippers82]

@Beautiful Days If that's true, then why did Christina Crawford lose the lawsuit?

[@BunnySlippers82]

@Beautiful Days True, but you claimed something as fact that you now admit has not been investigated, not even on a judge's order.

[@MrRJMGREEN]

How can people not believe this woman? Everyone saw or witnessed something off with Joan: Helen Hayes, Bette Davis, Mercedes McCambridge, Philip Terry, Dinah Shore, Vincent Sherman, Natalie Schafer, Greg Bautzer, Eve Arden, Lucille Ball, June Allyson, Liz Smith, Sterling Hayden, Judy Geeson, Christopher Crawford, B.D. Hyman, Lana Turner, Margaret O' Brien, Cheryl Crane,The Secret Storm cast and crew, and on and on and on. I love Christina Crawford. Her work is beneficial. Joan is a dead drunk.

[@eugenekozma2697]

I like Christina Crawford too.yes her books and service is beneficial.

[@MrRJMGREEN]

@@eugenekozma2697 Yes, she is a true angel. She has been through so much. She did well with her life.

[@eugenekozma2697]

@@MrRJMGREEN yes an angel of passion to help educate about child abuse.

[@WCaron23001]

Yum, yum, my mother's bones still taste good.

[@simbalantana4572]

Truth notwithstanding, to call her legendary is absurd. Her sisters refuted her claims, as did many others. Her brother was not in a great position to corroborate her claims, as he was proven to have mental issues. Why didn't she release her book while Joan was still alive, so she could defend herself?

[@Patrick3183]

Loved the anecdote about Jimmie shields

[@michaelgiffey5108]

She looks wonderful, and there have been many stories by famous people who corroborate Christina's story. My favorite was Helen Hayes who said " Joan tried to be many things. I just wish she hadn't tried to be a mother." BD Hyman (Bette Davis' daughter) told in her book My Mother's Keeper about how Joan insulted BD during the making of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

[@anearthlinganecdotes6098]

You said many stories... But only quoted two... Please tell other stories... My eyes are filled with tears for Christina... Please do tell

[@TheDennydude]

Bullshit , they played the movie her in sf at the Castro theater one year and she came and did question and answer b4 the movie, so that makes it hard for me to believe her, she has seen the movie agian and profited from it

[@apartmentsixeleven4093]

The reason she doesn't like what Mommie Dearest turned out to be, is because it was as fictional as at least 40% of her own book. The film also made people adore Crawford all the more, and a newer generation look into her films. Christina has backtracked many of her stories in recent years. That cigarette lighter story is VILE, by the way, and it would be good to hear from those people who were allegedly there. The wildly over the top rose garden story was untrue. Crawford had a little victory garden at the time. Christina was also (ADMITTEDLY) never hit with a wire hanger and in FACT, handed out decorated wire hangers to a pack of drag queens and a Joan Crawford look-alike contest in recent years. Crawford's other 2 daughters adored her and she them. Christina wanted to be beautiful. She wanted to be famous and admired. She simply could not --and did not --achieve that. Joan was well aware of the book by 1976 and that Christina was obviously not going to collaborate with her, thus indicating an ugly book. Therefore she was left nothing. Joan (perhaps mistakenly) felt Christopher must have been involved and disinherited him as well. Christina is also nowhere near as kind as she is in this video as many can attest. Joan was no saint and she would be the first to admit that. But no mothers really are. Bringing up a difficult and profoundly ungrateful child is not easy.

[@moviestarmemories630]

Do you know she came out with this doozie? Joan pushed her husband MR Steele down the stairs and murdered him.

[@dawnscott8164]

I agree I don’t believe anything Christine says .

[@dawnscott8164]

@Turkey Library and your listening too Moron or should I say Gobble gobble

[@roter13]

if i was abused by my parents i would change my last name. she obviously is still using her mom's name to get ahead.

[@spicey6646]

+roter13 She does,lol.

[@loveyoulikeguitars_]

Definitely.

[@Acalamity]

You were never abused. You would not know. I was. It is a form of overcoming. I did change my first name, though.

[@sarahassan2067]

@@Acalamity but you parents weren't famous, she was. Also she was adopted, I Think out of Honesty She Should have Changed It!

[@scottgrunow5201]

Christina Crawford appeared as the social worker in Mommie Dearest, the one who denies Joan's adoption application. "Don't you dare judge me!"

[@Bysanthus]

+scott grunow no she didn't. That was Virginia Kiser.

[@margeno1]

And they spelled Mommie wrong um do your research?

[@markdonahue9753]

Joan Crawford forever

[@MichaelSxe555]

She probably left while the movie screened!

[@trythinkingnow]

My question is how did Christina lose control over the movie rights to the book...which she must have unless she was dumb enough just to sign them away. Did she sell them lock stock and barrel for the money leaving her no say in the production? If so, she really cannot complain too much about the way it turned out. At the same time good for her telling the story in the first place and dedicating her life to this cause. All that said, the movie IS classic entertainment and always will be.

[@pammyoneto]

Still making money of the back of Joan Crawford is the first thought that entered my head.

[@madelena1234]

I doubt whether money was the instigating force that got her to write the book in the first place. It amazes me how this book has been panned by folks who have more sympathy for a child abuser, may be because once a Hollywood star, than the broken, hurt and tormented inner child that lurks within Christina. Perhaps the deniers should wave a flag for Harvey Weinstein and say all the women who point their fingers at his abuse are also phonies. Hollywood has always been a child abusing, woman abusing town. The recent rumours of paedos and the casting couch have some truth. In those days it was all covered up. Child abuse did not exist!!! I am sure there were many stars similar to Joan who abused their children and drove them crazy.

[@donspringstead1649]

Team Christina!!!

[@MrRJMGREEN]

If I remember correctly, she just signed autographs and took part in a Q&A. I am not sure she watched the film. I could be wrong, however.

[@Pamelina1111]

LOL... I didn't think you had an intelligent answer!

[@janiceleighton7348]

You don't go into someone's home like Elvis and tell his guy not to light his cigar three times I think it shows her disrespect to others Elvis was mad pulled her hair and told get out so it shows her cheeckyness back then ?

[@BunnySlippers82]

That's right, Elvis kicked Christina Crawford out of his house for being rude and snobby to at least one guest. She was also a tyrant during a play in NYC, while she was still dating her first husband. She got away with it and went through 3 directors simply because her boyfriend was a big-time producer back then. Hopefully she's grown up since then and is no longer a spoiled brat.

[@nuffinedited2]

saw no point you seem to have all the answers wrong ones but answers none the less

[@Pamelina1111]

Oh... you lived with them?

[@Patrick3183]

Oh Christina! Still talking about "abuse" that took place like 65 years ago!

[@peggycassidy1594]

She should really Get a Life--Forgive her mother, If her mother really abused her the way she said she was. She Loves it---talking about it. That's what she's Famous for.

[@Patrick3183]

Krystal Jang obvious troll is obvious

[@deeanderson4164]

+Patrick3183 She is helpful to others, and I'm glad she came forth!

[@spicey6646]

+Krystal Jang Haha! Really? She was a HAPPY abused "victim" then! I know several REAL abused people who don't act like her and they certainly do not want to keep re-living it! Show me the money is Christina's motto.

[@deeanderson4164]

Do you think that everything is okey dokey because now she is older? No, she isn't reliving it as much as she is taking it all and redeeming it by helping others with her cause of child abuse. I believe the woman, and I believe she is sincere in wanting to create change for others.

[@TheDennydude]

It was dec 1997 when she was at Castro theater, you can look it up here on you tube, so she lied about not ever watching it since its release

[@freyasangria]

I feel sorry that this woman was abused - honestly - but I think she should've stopped promoting it a long time. And the Mommie dearest movie is a favorite of mine. The abuse wasn't funny, but I'm sorry, I did find the movie to be sensational and very amusing to a hilarious level.

[@1212matt]

Joan Crawford offered Christian a College Education and she dropped out of college to become an actress just like her mother.... Still living off her dead famous mother.... how sad..... Christina never received a cut from the movie that is why she is still pushing her book.... $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[@Pamelina1111]

I'm counting yours....lol

[@MrLawrence85]

I thought the movie was great compared to the book. Faye Dunaway was superb as Joan Crawford. But the thing with the film is, when you watch it, you actually feel more sympathy towards Joan rather than Christina, which is why I guess Christina hates the film.

[@kimberleeturner8475]

Exactly. Because it portrays TRUTH. I bet Christina started threatening to ruin her mom's image from her early teens. I don't think Joan ever trusted and cared for Christina the same ever again. Joan was a smart woman who knew people and what they were capable of. She was always one step ahead of Christina thus the reason she gave for disinheriting them. They knew for reasons they were well aware of yet they would never say they knew the reason. She knew but was to ashamed to say I tried to black mail my mom in a tell all book. Her first bad interview of Joan was when she was 21. I can hear her now telling mommie I could have said a lot more but whose to say I won't in the future. This is the sole reason she was disinherited .

[@lovesangels1]

Christina Crawford was left out of the will by Joan so she wrote a book for financial gain. I believe that it was Christina who in part drove Joan to alcoholism. She was a rebellious child, difficult, and unnaturally envious from a very early age. Joan was a strict disciplinarian as described by her other children who strongly disagree with Christina saying Joan was warm, and loving . Also we are living in an age where if you even scold a child it is frowned upon, and called abuse. Lets pretend that Christina is not the liar that she is, and was in fact abused, then all her actions would suggest is that she is the most unforgiving, lacking any human compassion or genuine warmth, blood thirsty, and money hungry. How do you make a fortune out of someone you hate, and still hate them with such unyielding, and unending vicious wrath. This is what love, and human tenderness would look like..."my mother was abusive, as a grown up I have considered her struggles emotionally, psychologically, and in the work place. I would like to think I understand, and chose to forgive, and love those things which were good rather then to have hate that consumes me for my parent." Christina C. Proves through her every action exactly what kind of witch she really is. A total psychopath.

[@USAjock9]

She is a greedy woman who never did anything with her life accept rob from her mother fame and good name. Rotten to the VERY core!

[@USAjock9]

Give me a break. Bette Davis told Larry King in 1988 that Christina was broke living in a motel and that Joan left her nothing because she knew about the book two years before she died. She believed it would be a poor take on her life as Christine did not talk to Joan about her life stories etc.... Joan left Christina nothing in her will because of the book.

[@jaymesguy239]

Perhaps, but couldn't you also say Christina wrote the book because of her abuse? Many attested to Joan's abusive behaviour with her kids, and many saw her abuse adults. It was an open secret in Hollywood, but Joan wasn't the only one, sadly.

[@USAjock9]

@@jaymesguy239 Bette Davis who had a career they mirrored Joan Crawford's in many way had an awful daughter who wrote a nasty book about her also. Bette disowned her. You wrote the book after Joan died. She could not defend herself.

[@jeangenie43]

Seems to me she was responsible for the film. She had to sell the book rights for the film to be made.

[@kristopherwilhite2679]

She hated the film and the studio rejected her input on the script.

[@EAB82]

She looks fabulous for a woman in her 70s

[@madelena1234]

Interestingly, abused children do not age at the same pace. They are still stuck in their childhood. I have an aunt who was severely sexually abused, and at seventy three she looks fifty. She never got over the abuse, but is a beautiful person.

[@heavenlovestitanic]

Interesting, you would think the abuse would age them more

[@Pamelina1111]

You sound abused yourself. Joan Crawford didn't have enough money to fight over!

[@elgrigorio1]

Cause Joan spent all of her money on herself. Stuff she didn't even want or need. Al Steele payed her back bills in the mid and late 50s.

[@helenthorpe1494]

It was Al Steele that left Joan in debt, idiot!

[@elgrigorio1]

@@helenthorpe1494 if you're referring to me, I meant before that! Before she married Al Steele, Joan spent all of her money on herself. In Christina's book, Joan wasn't paying for their boarding school so she did work scholarship. After she married Steele, he payed off all of Joan's back bills. But then Al Steele was burrowing too much money, and then he died, leaving Joan with a high debt.

[@Pamelina1111]

@@helenthorpe1494 😂

[@nuffinedited2]

IMO she is a flat out LIAR!

[@JonathonDenson]

While Joan had issues, so did Christina. That's the rest of the story.

[@Playwithfireflies]

This woman is no advocate for abused children, she's an advocate for HERSELF. Whenever she's asked about abused children she answers by saying she's not an expert and dodges the question then begins talking about herself. What a joke she is.

[@nuffinedited2]

Fail lmao

[@USAjock9]

Ah, the poor girl. Regrettably Joan adopted this troubled child and tried to make her life better. This ungrateful woman would be reduced to living in a trailor park in the valley had she not cashed in on a great actresses fame. Oh, she did live in a trailor park prior to the book. A VERY shameful woman!

[@USAjock9]

@Turkey Library How dare you! You need help lady!

[@USAjock9]

Bette told Larry King the book about Joan should not have been published. Bette's daughter also wrote an awful tell all about her. The difference was Bette was still alive. Bette was sick and dying and her daughter did this to her. Same story with Joan. Christine is an ungrateful horrible woman. I loath her!

[@anearthlinganecdotes6098]

உனக்கு எப்ப சாவு வரும்???

[@lebkha]

why Christopher never spoke?!! let this story die already Christina... your mom is long gone so just stop

[@kristopherwilhite2679]

You still are interested are you not? You watched this...