Larry Birkhead

So she really believed that

You know, they had a lease on her life and that basically that that's why she signed every autograph.

That's why she did what she did.

But I think that this, you know, she was renamed Anna Nicole by the founder of Guess after she was in Playboy.

Right.

So that name for her was another outlet to be somebody totally different.

It was.

And I think that she went back and she was able to feel safe in that moment and get the things that she didn't get.

She had a really fractured childhood family relationship with all of her, you know, I wouldn't say all, but a lot of her family, her mom, totally another crazy, you know, situation.

Well, the thing about it is with that at the time it was, I have, if I had a dollar for every time somebody called me and said, they're going to do a show about Anna Nicole and we participate, you know, like, you know, there would be no worries, you know, in life.

But, but the problem is, is that I have sat back and watched, you know, time after time, um, people, um, um,

kind of do the same show over right the same cast of characters you know they go back through talk show transcripts of that time when anna passed and that was a time when like a lot of different vultures came out and they were rewriting history people's checks that dried up they went out and they'd say this or that one day they'd say one thing you'd be the greatest person the next day you know you'd be the worst person or you know whatever and the stories kept changing and evolving and nobody was like checking anything and vetting it

No.

And so what to me was it got a little bit.

Nobody was really checking into anything in a lot of these past projects.

And I got tired of seeing the same people.

Well, that was one of the things that was a lot of the times early on in the relationship when I went to her house, you know, that was off limits, that you didn't talk.

She's like, no, no, no, I don't want to talk about it.

I don't want to talk about it.

But it got to the point where when trust was built up and she started, you know, talking, you know, different things and disclosing things, she would tell me like some really crazy stories about her childhood and having to deal with her mom and things.