I find it very positive and comforting and a kind of protection. You know, Johnny, I’ve become a Christian Scientist. “Why spoil days of your life reading a book that can only hurt you? It’s against my beliefs. Springer asked her if she planned to read the book. Obviously referring to her adoption of Christina, she said, “No good deed goes unpunished.” “I suppose she doesn’t think that I’m going to leave her enough or that I’m going to disappear soon enough.” She sighed. “I think she’s using my name strictly to make money,” Joan told us. They spoke about it with a sense of foreboding, though they had no idea that it would turn out to be the prototype of angry books by the children of stars. It was clear as I listened to Joan Crawford and her longtime friend and publicist, John Springer, at a lunch in 1976, almost two years before the publication of Joan’s daughter Christina’s book Mommie Dearest, that they knew it was forthcoming.
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