Larry Birkhead

Well, and she had, she had gone, um, um, to your point, she had gone like to hospitals and people had called and said, she's in the hospital.

And then her medical chart was released.

And then, you know, or she had, you know, stalker ex-boyfriends who came to the, her house with a knife and was going to, so she had a lot of just crazy stuff happen.

Um, she also had a file folder in her house from different people that mailed crazy stuff and then she'd give it to security and they would have to vet it.

And so I look, she was extremely, um,

I say paranoid, but also like some, some rightfully so.

And some a little bit because of her situation made her a little bit more extreme, you know, on the side of paranoia or, or alert, I should say, you know, maybe both.

I think that in many ways that she was kind of misunderstood, you know, about so many things in her life because she projected this persona of Anna Nicole.

Mm-hmm.

And even though I called her Anna Nicole, I never called her any other name, you know, other than Anna Nicole, um, her legal name was Vicky.

And so I felt like I was getting to know Vicky, but it was, you know, it was Anna that was when she went out, you know, and as soon as the light came on, as soon as that last, you know, drop of lipstick went on, it was, it was, you know, it was almost like it was a different person, you know, it was, it was wild.

But, um,

And I think part of what Anna, her...

in a way that she was misunderstood.

I think her story is a survival story.

You know, she was, she was always in survival mode.

And I think that what she did with the time she was here on earth is that she, she was a, she dreamed big, you know, she lived, you know, fast and, and, and hard in so many ways.

And, and,

But at the same time, she built this wall around herself and her outlet was to perform for these people, for everybody.

And she told me once, she said, I gave myself to Hollywood.