A new documentary available on Netflix sheds light on the reunion between Anna Nicole Smith and her biological father, a shocking sequence during which the latter had a disgusting gesture towards his daughter.
90s Sex Symbol,Anna Nicole Smithwent from pop icon to reality TV star in ten years before dying of a drug overdose in 2007. A tragic existence including director Ursula Macfarlane (to whom we owe the gripping documentary The Untouchable, Harvey Weinstein) tells the story on Netflix Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me with the help of unpublished archive images and rare testimonies from his relatives. The story of Vickie Lynn Hogan begins in a lost corner of Texas where his mother raises him with his aunt. Become Anna Nicole Smith a few years later, she will engage a private detective to trace the trace of his parent. A return to childhood mixed with joy and suffering.
After an initial contact by telephone, Anna Nicole Smith repatriate his father in California. “My father is not the kind of man you want to be alone with. We don’t feel safe with him. It’s a monster”, explains his son in front of the camera of Ursula Macfarlane. Teenager, his father would thus have confided to him that he had raped his mother’s sister. “He chased her near a tree when his wife wasn’t there. She was a child. He’s very scary. I’ve always been scared of him.“Similarly, Anna Nicole Smith is quick to become disillusioned. And for good reason, her father would have tried to rape her. A shocking and unprecedented revelation that would have left the director “on the floor”, according to comments reported by our colleagues from Paris Match. “No one had ever talked about this story. His biological brother Donnie, who was however aware of their father’s past crimes, learned it himself from our mouths during the filming”she reports.
Why the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter refused to participate in the documentary
After the death of her billionaire husband J. Howard Marshall and a few passing affairs, Anna Nicole Smith couples with photographer Larry Birkhead. From their love story is born a baby girl named Dannielynn, September 7, 2006. The star is dating attorney Mark Hatten whose name appears on the childhood birth certificate. A DNA analysis eventually restore the truth about the identity of the biological father. Have these scrambles dissuaded Larry Birkhead from participating in the documentary about his ex? In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, he claims instead to have wanted to avoid his daughter getting mixed up “To an extremely mediocre project on his mother” and regret that “some people [aient] been allowed to invent things and rewrite history”. “I look forward to an authentic project dedicated to Anna Nicole, where her truth can be told from her own point of view and by those who really knew her.” Anna Nicole Smith “really deserved better”, according to him.