The celebrity bad parent Hall of Fame, past and present

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Anonymous wrote:Candy Spelling

This may not be a parenting issue possibly - isn't the son a totally normal guy who moved out of LA and has a normal family and manages his money just fine?

Yes, and he's a really nice and grounded person who smartly left LA.

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Anonymous wrote:Mary Tyler Moore

Are you thinking of the character she played in Ordinary People?

No. She had a son when she was very young and basically abandoned him. I think maybe her parents, whom she said were abusive, raised him. He committed suicide when he was in his earlt 20s. I read her autobiography and she did not seem to care about him at all. It was sad and i did not find her likeable at all. She was very appealing as Mary Richard's though.

His death was not a suicide. It was an accidental gunshot wound.

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Anonymous wrote:It may be excused by the era they lived in and she did the right thing in keeping her, but Loretta Young raising the baby she had with Clark Gable and pretending she adopted her. I remember seeing something about the daughter having a hard life because of the deception.

Clark Gable raped Loretta Young. Young had no concept of date rape and blamed herself. Very late in her life she learned what it was and stated that’s what had happened to her. She was Catholic and desperately wanted to keep her baby. Loretta actually did place her baby in the orphanage and legally adopted her around 18 months of age. The daughter didn’t learn the truth until young adulthood, and there was a period of estrangement. I think it’s not fair to place Loretta Young in the celebrity bad parent hall of fame. That would be Clark Gable. Loretta did everything she could do in that time to love, provide for, and protect her daughter.

My grandmother was raped about five years after Loretta. She told no one but a friend (who helped her clean up and kept her at her house for a few days) until she told me shortly before her death. I should never have let him get me alone. That’s the phrase she repeated over and over as she told me the story. My grandmother was a very strong woman and wasn’t known to take blame very often. Even though we live with rape culture, I don’t think we understand how deeply ingrained the sense of female culpability for rape was.

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Anna Nicole Smith. Lies about her baby’s father for 6 months and then leaves her baby motherless due to an overdose.

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Drew Barrymore’s Mom, Jade.

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Anonymous wrote:Alec Baldwin.

Called his daughter a pig.
https://entertainmentnow.com/news/alec-baldwin-voicemail-phonecall-daughter-message/

lol. My sister and I were like “that’s not normal?”

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Anonymous wrote:Candy Spelling

This may not be a parenting issue possibly - isn't the son a totally normal guy who moved out of LA and has a normal family and manages his money just fine?

Yes, he left Hollywood and was a life coach for a little while, not sure if he’s still doing that. But he turned out relatively normal. She is a freakin’ mess….her latest headline is that she hates water and never drinks it and often ends up hospitalized due to dehydration. It’s like every headline about her is something bizarre. Its like she never grew up.

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Jaid and John Barrymore.

It's impressive how much Drew has been able to accomplish despite having them as parents.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Candy Spelling

This may not be a parenting issue possibly - isn't the son a totally normal guy who moved out of LA and has a normal family and manages his money just fine?

Yes, he left Hollywood and was a life coach for a little while, not sure if he’s still doing that. But he turned out relatively normal. She is a freakin’ mess….her latest headline is that she hates water and never drinks it and often ends up hospitalized due to dehydration. It’s like every headline about her is something bizarre. It's like she never grew up.

I feel bad for her kids. They always look sort of "messy" and unkempt and having heard she's a massive hoarder, I can't imagine how Tori's kids will manage as adults. It's like she's set them up to fail, because of her lack of discipline for herself, and probable lack of structure in the home.

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Anonymous wrote:Will Smith and Jada Pinckett. Their kids seem pretty messed up.

I don't think they're the worst, but I side eye Cindy Crawford and Randy Gerber for this reason. For some reason I expected better of them and both of their kids seem pretty screwed up.

How so? I'm asking sincerely. Last I saw Kaia Gerber she was in an Apple TV show and seemed ok.

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Jamie King. Just lost physical custody of her kids because she refuses to go to rehab and is a drug addict. Pathetic.

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Hayden Panettiere. Her daughter lives in Ukraine with her father.

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I would nominate Jerry Lewis for how awful he was to his sons.
Apparently he left them ALL out of his will instead choosing to will everything he had to his second wife + only daughter.

That is just pure evil.

And worst Mother??
I would likely nominate Joan Crawford by far.
For obvious reasons. 😟

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Anonymous wrote:It may be excused by the era they lived in and she did the right thing in keeping her, but Loretta Young raising the baby she had with Clark Gable and pretending she adopted her. I remember seeing something about the daughter having a hard life because of the deception.

Clark Gable raped Loretta Young. Young had no concept of date rape and blamed herself. Very late in her life she learned what it was and stated that’s what had happened to her. She was Catholic and desperately wanted to keep her baby. Loretta actually did place her baby in the orphanage and legally adopted her around 18 months of age. The daughter didn’t learn the truth until young adulthood, and there was a period of estrangement. I think it’s not fair to place Loretta Young in the celebrity bad parent hall of fame. That would be Clark Gable. Loretta did everything she could do in that time to love, provide for, and protect her daughter.

My grandmother was raped about five years after Loretta. She told no one but a friend (who helped her clean up and kept her at her house for a few days) until she told me shortly before her death. I should never have let him get me alone. That’s the phrase she repeated over and over as she told me the story. My grandmother was a very strong woman and wasn’t known to take blame very often. Even though we live with rape culture, I don’t think we understand how deeply ingrained the sense of female culpability for rape was.

I am sad to hear what happened w/your Grandmother PP. 💔
How very tragic…..

I agree the parenting onus is on Clark Gable vs. Loretta Young on this.
I think Loretta did the best she could given the unfortunate circumstances at the time.

If she had revealed the truth her career would have been toast as Hollyweird at the time was very unforgiving during that time.

Clark could, should have acknowledged his daughter more - according to her he only saw her one time - it wasn’t fair to her that he shut her out the way he did.

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Anonymous wrote:Tom Cruise a refuses to acknowledge his biological daughter due to his religion.

This.

For a Father to not have anything to do w/his child because she left his church is just outrageous in my humble opinion here.

Suri deserves so much more from that rat.