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Topic : 04/11 Anna Nicole Smith: Family Controversy

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The true Hollywood story of Anna Nicole Smith’s life and death has captured headlines and intrigued the American public. Now, a surprising new person has come forth and wants to set the record straight. Anna Nicole’s estranged sister, Donna Hogan, who hasn’t seen or spoken to Anna Nicole in years, has written an unauthorized book called, Train Wreck: The Life and Death of Anna Nicole Smith. Why does she say she’s not shocked by Anna Nicole’s death, and why did she write the book? Dr. Phil drills down to find out if Donna is really trying to set the record straight or if she’s just tarnishing Anna’s memory. Then, Entertainment Tonight’s weekend correspondent, Kevin Fraizer, and senior supervising producer for The Insider, Bonnie Tiegel, both key players in covering the Anna Nicole story, join the conversation. Find out what Anna Nicole told them about her relationship with her family members. And, Howard K. Stern’s sister, Bonnie, weighs in on Donna’s book and what she knows about Donna’s relationship with Anna Nicole. Why is she offended by Donna’s words? Join the discussion.

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April 11, 2007, 7:47 am PDT

Who is in charge here?

I must be confused...I thought I was watching the Dr. Phil show!  Apparently it is the TrimSpa CEO's Wife show.  This woman is more annoying than the sister!  She keeps butting in and apparently thinks she is here to interview the sister instead of Dr. Phil.  Lady, shut up and mind your own business!
 
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April 11, 2007, 7:50 am PDT

Sad situation from a family member

I really find it sad how so many people won't let this woman rest in peace especially her FAMILY! Her sister Donna obviously wants to hurt and embarass her! Why on every question did she say "and stuff and everything".  Watch the tape she said it many times she knows nothing! All Anna's friends were right you could tell she didn't know Anna yet sure wants to suddenly look like her what a con artist! I hope the world would put a band on the book and no one buy it. Anna may have had faults, we all do, but you can tell she was a good person, friend, and mother. Any faults she had would obviously be the lack of self confidence from being around those family members!! The one guy is right if you love her why would you write a book about a family member called "train wreck". Very sad, may her and her son rest in peace and her daughter have a good life with her father without Anna's family being present!
 
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April 11, 2007, 7:54 am PDT

Enough

I don't see why we can't let Anna Smith rest in pease. She has been gone for a wile and we are still talking about her. Let her rest in pease. This is all getting a little to blown out of portion.
 
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April 11, 2007, 8:06 am PDT

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Having recently lost my sister in March 2007, I find this woman to be a horrible human being.  She criticized Anna for not helping her son, if she was such a dedicated sister, where was she when she read and quoted things in her book.  If she was so concerned about her sister when she was alive, why wasn't she there trying to help her.  Most of what is written in her book are obviously what she has read in tabloids about her sister.  When she said she didn't want the pic of her and Anna in her book you knew that because it was the only pic anyone could find of the two of them together, it probably isn't very flattering to her, which is the reason she didn't want it in there.  I am sure anyone who saw this show realizes what a pathetic person Donna is.  I believe exploiting someone when they are alive, and in trouble is bad, but doing it after they have passed away is unforgiveable.  I won't read this book, because buying it would only add to what she is trying to accomplish, making money.  And she called Anna a gold digger.  Who is the gold digger here. 

 

I have never been a dedicated Anna Nicole fan, I am a Dr. Phil fan.  But with all the media attention Anna has received since her death, it's hard not to form an opinion.  I don't believe much of what this woman said but it is typical for people to try to jump on the band wagon and try to profit from someone else's tragedy.   Shame on you Donna.   Rest in peace Anna.

 
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April 11, 2007, 8:07 am PDT

04/11 Anna Nicole Smith: Family Controversy

Thankyou Dr. Phil for showing Donna to be the grubber she is....

trying to live on the "coat tails" of  Anna Nicole.... shame on

her.... and "setting the record straight"... what a joke...

and I am glad to hear she is being paid  royalties for her story....

I know for sure I wont be contributing to her miserable life...what a leech....

Hugs to to you Dr. Phil.... glad to see all the good work you do... mzlady...

 
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April 11, 2007, 8:08 am PDT

Let it rest already!!

Why is so much time being wasted on someone who did nothing but marry a rich old guy? No one knew who she was before that and no one cared after. All she was was a user of people, drugs and the media to help inflate her own ego. There are so many people that have done wonderful, great things that haven't seen a bit of publicity. Most women that are blond bimbos are made fun of or criticized. Actually, I think Anna Nicole has set back the womens movement a few decades. This is a woman that should be pitied and not honored.

 

Enough is enough already. PLEASE get back to the topics that really make a difference in peoples lives and stop being just another "gossip" show.

 
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April 11, 2007, 8:12 am PDT

Why we r so interested

I have heard over the past few months why does anyone care & why was she famous to begin with.  I did follow Anna Nicole's life for the past few years  mainly because I could relate to her rollercoaster ride of a life.  So leads me into why people care. I dont believe by far I am the only one that was hoping Anna's life balance out to show that even the most out of control lives can be brought under control.

 

Why was she famous? Well in my opinion she was famous for the same reason Hugh Hefner,  Marilyn Monroe, and Larry Flynt have all been famous. They all knew sex sells.  She was a beautiful  woman and used that to her advantage.  She had an unremarkable talent for being the bombshell with an essence of a childish vulnerability.

 

As far as her biological family I havent even sit around a supper table with them and I understand why she would want to distance herself  away from them. Her sister today on the show done more damage to her  own character than she has throughout the entire ordeal. Please tell me she did not say that she didnt know she would be attacked.  First of all I am sure Dr. Phil did not ambush her with any of the guest that he had speaking other than her. Bonnie Stern has rallyed behind her brother from day one(as she should being family and all) and the trim spa ceo of course he would take offense to the fact that she was saying  Anna had a possible gastric bypass if that  had come to pass I think that would put a damper on the sales of Trim Spa.

 

Now just a few thoughts for Donna. The whole Anna look alike angle not a good idea. 2nd  say what you mean and mean what you say. 3rd Its ok to be angry with your sister and to want to verbalize that but your time to do that has past along with her.  Nobody but Anna could have given you the closure that I think you were trying to say the driving force was behind the book. Remember there is a baby girl out there that will never know her mother for herself so for that sake stop the vicious cycle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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April 11, 2007, 8:14 am PDT

It is what it is

 ok now I am a true anna nicole fan I loved her in life and now death But lets be real If you ask someone to say the first thing that comes in mind when you say anna nicole they will say drugs Its not a secret she took pills. And thru annas whole life she went around talking about her family and how bad they were and until her death we never seen any of them now I say what comes around goes around and now if they wanna tell there story i say good for them. Also we have to take a look at her and they way she tryed to push larry out of his daughters life that not a very nice thing to do. And she lied over and over to her fans about howard being the father. Im just saying put all the peice together Anna was not a angel so i just wish people would leave this donna alone she is just writing about what everyone else already thought.
 
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April 11, 2007, 8:35 am PDT

SO SAD

WE ALL NEED TO KNEEL AND SEND A PRAYER THAT LITTLE DANNILYNN WILL BE PROTECTED FROM ANY WRONGS AND LOVE NOT MONEY IS THE PATH SHE TAKES. LOVE NOT TOYS. I PRAY THAT THE ARMS THAT HOLDS AND PROTECTS HER ARE KIND.

 

I FEEL SADNESS IN MY HEART FOR HOWARD AND ALL HIS FAMILY. HOWARD NEEDS SERIOUS COUNSELLING TO FIND SOME PEACE WITH THE DECISIONS HE HAS MADE AND WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE. HOWARDS FAMILY ALSO. THE TRUTH WILL SET ALL OF THEM FREE.

 

GOD SPEED WITH ALL UPCOMING COURT HEARINGS. MAY GOD BLESS LARRY AND HIS FAMILY FOR THEIR LIVES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.

 
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April 11, 2007, 8:39 am PDT

Not always

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I lost some respect not seeign the Doctor I was use to being real and honest?

A sister is a bond regardless of time, many families have proven that!  oh I see it was ok that those you had sitting there judging a sister and saying they was close to the drugged up, not in a right mind person given an authority place to speak.?  Doctor where was you today?

I seen another media gossip going on instead of getting real and to the truth?  The show was set up to attack the sister and I do not totally agree with her on all points!  I totally agree she had every right to write a book about what she felt just as you choose to have a right to have the show about it?  Trash that life? what are you saying?  Anna's life can help so many through the truth of it?  She abused drugs way too often and did you not say that people on drugs was nto in sound mind, could make rational and good decisions about thier own life?  how many kids have you told to get in rehab and counseling for the same?  Didn't they love their 'friends' teh enablers then and hate thier family who opposed their self distructive life style?

Know this also: for many years through time it was considered respectful to dig and bury yoyur loved ones yoruself, not let strangers do it.  It is also a manner of respect and a gift to leave your foot prints above the one you love.  A sign of I will always have a part of me with you here in your resting place?  why do you depict that is something wrong in how Anna's mother grieved?

Someone counted the shovels thrown, now that was wrong and invasion of privacy!

People repeat how many shovels thrown?  Get real, she left part of herself there with her daughter, probably would have done more but was worm out?  She left her footprints over her daughter, that can be considered as leaving part of yourself forever there covering the life you loved?  get real!  people still today do that, it is a belief, religion cannot be disputed but all have thier own ways?  She did not spit on the grave now did she?

I did not personnally know Anna Except in the many similarities to my younger sister.  I watche dher reality show for that reason, I wanted to try to understand how anyone could be so attached to drugs and a scandilous lifestyle dispite how detrimental it was to them and thier children as my sister did.  She also loved and prefered older men (we did nto have a father, he died young), she loved her drugs so much, she idd it front of her child, dispite her love for them and seh always choose them before any relationship?

use thsi situation to speak on the many evils of drugs, alchol and children caught in the middle of adults problems please?  let the world see the truth not the hype for money as did the guest you had to speak agaisnt the sister, who in fact did have a life bond regardless of tiem away,

you know better than to think time changes love! 

You know btter than to think drugs do not cause a family separation in physical closness?

you know that  death does not leave the living loveless or in deep sorrow for who is gone, regardless of time away from them?

You know all the people who are there while someone is abusing a substance to the possible death is enablers who have no credit to speak of any good they are to that person?

12 years they had to be a good enfluence over a woman in trouble?

A baby born from a drug using woman is taken into strangers arms and not allowed to be held by her grandmother because of what a drugged up daughter said?  What about what the baby needed?  A woman putting another mans name on a Birth certificate?  What about the real fathers rights then?  truth?

Donna:  write another book about all those liars there attacking you?  write about how much they used your sister for the money they made off them interviews and how wrong they are abotu a baby being born away from USA citizenship under another mans name so they could avoid the legal problems under our laws for waht they was doing with your sisters inability to think straight, act right or do waht was in her childs best interest?  write, write and write some more because it is aweful what this baby will live with and without because of the media?

A sister is not always a bond regardless of time.  Many people are lucky enough to think that is the case but some of us know it's not. It takes more than being born of the same mother or father to qualify as a sister or a brother.  There is plenty of examples of siblings that do not get a long and do not have anything to do with each other...a celebrity example would be Julia and Eric Roberts. Alot of people have siblings that would rather stab them in the back than help them and it's in our best interest to stay estranged from them. 

 

I have always felt sorry for Anna Nicole because I have been estranged from my own family and I know how tough it can be.  Her family is proving their true colors and I just wish they would get a life and let Anna rest in peace. 

 

I wish the best for Anna's daughter and hope that whoever ends up with custody of her thinks enough of Anna, not to bad mouth her mother in front of her.  Her daughter has rights too and one of those rights is the chance to love her mother even if she is deceased.

 
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