Savenok/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Imagesīefore Mommie Dearest, she'd started a career in acting, but after its success she turned her focus to writing and penned four more books.

Christina, on the other hand, has managed to lead a well-documented but quiet life. Cathy appears to still be living, though her whereabouts have not been widely publicized. Sadly, Chandler's book reveals that Christopher died in 2006 and Cynthia in 2007. It was a critical flop, but later achieved cult status, and chatter surrounding Crawford and her children has since dwindled. In 1981, Mommie Dearest was adapted into a movie starring Faye Dunaway as Crawford. Our Mommie was the best mother anyone ever had.” 'Cindy and I had a different reality-the opposite.

“We lived in the same house as Christina, but we didn’t live in the same home, because she had her own reality,' Cathy told Chandler. According to Not the Girl Next Door, Cathy, Cindy, and Crawford's first husband, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., were among those who categorically denied Christina's claims. The response to Mommie Dearest thrust family violence - and the Crawfords - into the national spotlight. “I suppose she doesn’t think that I’m going to leave her enough or that I’m going to disappear soon enough.” “I think she’s using my name strictly to make money,” she told Chandler at the time. She was the first, in 1940, followed by a boy, Christopher, in 1942, who was later reclaimed by his birth mother a second boy, also named Christopher, in 1943 and twin girls, Catherine (Cathy) and Cynthia (Cindy), in 1947.Ĭhandler writes that Crawford had allegedly known about Christina's book before she died, though she, of course, didn't live to read it. Christina was one of five children Crawford adopted, according to Charlotte Chandler's biography of Crawford, Not the Girl Next Door. At the time, the accusations sent shockwaves through Hollywood, but decades removed from the tumult, you may be wondering: What is Christina Crawford doing now?įirst, a refresher. Following Crawford's death in 1977, her daughter, Christina, published Mommie Dearest, an explosive memoir alleging Crawford had been emotionally and physically abusive. But some may remember that the film wasn't the only controversy that hung over Crawford's life. On Feud, Ryan Murphy chronicles the scandal that trailed Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, where a long-brewing rivalry between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis hit a fever pitch behind scenes.

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