by the ordeal but then he learned about crawford's affair with gable in his memoirs douglas wrote he had discovered one of crawford and gable's favorite hookup spots was the portable dressing room he had purchased for her as a gift if that's not a stab in the back we don't know what is while fairbanks jr certainly had a lot to say negatively about his ex-wife he defended her after her death when her adopted daughter published her seething tell-all book mommy dearest in NUMBER_TOKEN. hey if you're enjoying this video so far be sure to give it a like and subscribe to facts first if you haven't already and stick around for more about douglas fairbanks jr and joan crawford mommy dearest while joan crawford was known for many different things throughout her life and career including her sexuality femininity charitable contributions and her phenomenal body of work an entirely different and darker picture of the star emerged after her eldest adopted daughter christina crawford published her previously mentioned tell-all memoir in NUMBER_TOKEN. according to christina jones was a raging alcoholic and abusive mother who tended to fly off the handle in fits of anger the public always knew that things between this mother-daughter pair weren't perfect their relationship apparently began to fall apart sometime around NUMBER_TOKEN when christina NUMBER_TOKEN at the time took medical leave from her role on the cbs soap opera the secret storm only for her mother to replace her this came as a shock to christina and drove a wedge between her and her mother it's rumored joan knew about her daughter's book before her passing in NUMBER_TOKEN but never discussed it openly with her she did however make sure to omit christina and her brother christopher from her will for quote reasons they knew leaving her estate and wealth instead to her twin daughters kathy and cindy as well as to charity christina and christopher later contested getting cut from the will and ultimately won their case since the publication of mommy dearest the validity of the scenarios and details described within it have been hotly debated fairbanks jr for one said the joan crawford who was depicted in the memoir despite the problems he had with her was not the woman he'd known and once loved christina has since published updated NUMBER_TOKENth and NUMBER_TOKENth anniversary editions of the book other memoirs about her mother including possessed and not the girl next door joan crawford have been written by other authors in an attempt to discredit christina's claims of course there was also a satirical film in NUMBER_TOKEN of the same name that starred faye dunaway some of the most notable claims made in mommy dearest include the following christina claims when she and her brother christopher were first adopted they were named joan jr and philip terry jr after their adoptive father but when crawford's marriage with terry fell apart she had the children renamed christina wrote that her mother hated wire hangers on one occasion as was famously depicted in the mommy dearest film she
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