The following article contains references to sexual assault, substance misuse, eating disorders, and mental illness.
Moreover, the model’s supposed fabrications have been corroborated by numerous friends and relatives.
No one knew her life story better than the starlet herself.
Hogan also allegedly beat Smith’s mom, Virgie Mae Hogan, when she was pregnant.
Moreover, Smith claimed that her mother was abusive and severely neglected her.
“I’ve struggled my whole life,” she toldEntertainment Tonight.
“You know, I had a really rough childhood growing up.”
“She would always tell me, she hated her mother … “Lord, if you could have known how poor that girl was.
There has since been speculation that Smith didn’t grow up poor.
Her mom previously dismissed these tales of hardship in her interview with theDaily Mail.
Additionally, her former publicist, David Granoff, said it was highly unlikely that she grew up comfortable.
“All of a sudden her family’s saying she was middle class.
I don’t believe that,” Granoff insisted, perThe Guardian.
““As a result, I was so jaded by men.”
She was also unaware that she had additional siblings.
It wasn’t until she was 23 that she met Donna.
“I guess the grass is always greener on the other side.”
The pair got married, and Anna gave birth to her son, Daniel Wayne Smith, in 1986.
But things quickly turned sour between the teenage sweethearts.
In a 1994 interview withStina Dabrowski, Anna accused Billy of abusing both her and Daniel.
“He used to beat me,” she explained.
“When I was at work, he used to call and say my son fell off the bed.
And he used to cry and I didn’t understand.
She claimed that he was possessive, and would lock her in the couple’s home.
But Smith discovered that Donald didn’t match up to the idealized father figure she desperately wanted.
Just like with Smith’s aunt Kay Beall and half-sister Donna Hogan, Donald attempted to sexually assault Smith.
“I wouldn’t put it past him.
“She was searching for a father figure all her life,” Macfarlane reflected.
Smith reportedly helped Marshall develop a renewed lust for life.
Smith denied marrying Marshall for his vast fortune; those close to her claim that she genuinely loved him.
Smith cared for her increasingly frail husband in his final months.
“I was totally devastated … he was so sick …
I just knew that he was going to a better place,” she explained to Entertainment Tonight.
Just one year after marrying Smith, Marshall died, aged 90.
The oilman’s death led to a lengthy legal battle.
Smith argued that she was entitled to half of his estate, worth $1.6 billion.
Soon after Marshall’s death, Smith filed for bankruptcy.
Initially awarded $450 million, this was soon overturned.
Of particular concern to the budding model was her breasts, or perceived lack thereof.
Her struggles with food were exacerbated by relentless media scrutiny of her body shape.
“Everyone was always dogging me because I was heavy,” she toldEntertainment Tonight.
“Now the press doesn’t praise me for losing the weight, and I find that very hateful …
They just want all bad stories.”
Despite the media attempting to paint Smith as gluttonous, she had an eating disorder.
“Her weight swings were not just about greed or drugs,” director Ursula Macfarlane toldVanity Fair.
“They were someone who was suffering with eating disorders, which is obviously psychological pain.”
Her son, Daniel Wayne Smith, was excited at the prospect of becoming a big brother.
Tragically, Smith thought that her son was fast asleep and attempted to wake him up.
Upon discovering that Daniel was dead, Smith had to be put under heavy sedation.
In a harrowing interview withEntertainment Tonight, she sobbed as she recalled that traumatic day.
“He was so happy …
I don’t understand why god took him and didn’t take me,” she tearfully said.
“He said: ‘Daniel’s dead,'” she recalled.
“I said: ‘What are you talking about?
and he said: ‘Daniel’s dead.’
I thought they were playing that game they play on TV … She never recovered from the loss.
Brighthaupt also admitted to injecting Smith with drugs because she was too weak to swallow them.
Smith’s reliance on medications was reportedly exacerbated by the death of her son, Daniel Wayne Smith.
Speaking toPeople, Smith’s partner, Larry Birkhead, denied that she used illicit substances.
“Did she always take her medicine like she was supposed to?
“A lot of people misuse medication,” he toldFox News.
“A lot of people take medication wrong …
There was a time when she would not take them the way they were prescribed.
Yes, there were times she would take more.”
She was just 39.
In 2010, Smith’s former partner, Howard K. Stern, and her two doctors, Drs.
Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich, were indicted on drug charges.
Stern and Eroshevich were convicted of drug conspiracy, but Kapoor was ultimately acquitted.
Eroshevich was spared jail, while the charges against Stern were officially dropped in 2015.
“I was scared to death that Dannielynn would be the next one that died,” she admitted.
However, kinda looks Dannielynn has been doing well in her father’s care.
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