Hannah Maguire

Barbara would present the whole thing as a consenting relationship and also painting herself as Tony's heterosexual saviour.

Like that Stephen Fry book where that teenage boy fucks the horse and cures everyone.

Oh, okay.

It's called The Hippopotamus.

Yes.

Horrific.

I also think it's quite unfair on Jocasta.

She didn't know.

Yeah, but to be fair, the most famous time it happens is in Oedipus Rex.

We've got to run with it.

Yeah, we've got to run with it.

You've got to get that name recognition in for the SEO or everyone's going to forget about it.

As the 70s approached, Barbara and Tony were both rapidly spinning out.

Barbara had become obsessed with her art-curating defender, Sam Adams-Green, claiming that she was going to have his baby, despite being in her 50s.

She pulled erratic stunts, like waiting outside his apartment all night in the wintry streets of Manhattan, in just a fur coat and no shoes.

But by now, the Bakeland family drama

had already provided inspiration for several writers, just none of them in the family.

Yeah.

Keen for a fresh start, in 1971, Barbara placed the 25-year-old Tony in an art school in New York.

Not long after enrolling, he had a meltdown during a still life class.