Larry Birkhead

I didn't get the delivery room.

I didn't get that moment that the dads get.

I had to watch Danny Lynn being born on Entertainment Tonight along with the rest of the world.

And of all the pictures that I've taken, like Tina Turner and all these big people, the one picture that eludes me is a family photo of me and Anna and my daughter together.

And that's painful that I don't have that picture.

moment from a visual standpoint in my mind I can see it in my mind yeah and I can picture it clearly and but I just don't I don't have it and I might never you know never have it but um so I've spent my time kind of going overboard making up for the fact that Danny Lynn doesn't have a mom and so I do I try to do as much as I can every day and put all my energy into everything and hope that I just that one day that she can say you know that she appreciates what I've done and and um

But we've had to have some more recent conversations where things have been twisted to or adjusted to age-appropriate conversations that some of the things that were happening behind the scenes when she was born and she starts...

Danny Lynn's starting to be very opinionated about what she thinks about different people doing different things and things.

And so to your point earlier, when people ask what does she think about her mom and stuff, obviously there's that boy that's there and that you can only know if you're in that particular situation.

She appreciates her mom.

She loves the fact that people love her mom.

But I'll say, when I go through things for her, like things that are archives or whatever, like clothes and different things, she...

is so such a sweet kid now, now an adult, but she is more worried about what, how it impacts me.

And she thinks that like, you know, you know, that it's, she's like, you know, I didn't know my, I didn't know my mom, you know, I, that makes her sad.

I'm sure, you know, we talked about it, but, but she, her heart hurts more for me than, than you would think from her being the victim of something that was more, you know, her mother and because she knew that I knew her and that I really in real time went through that, lived it and suffered that loss.

And that doesn't take anything away from, I'm not trying to like Trump her grief or anything, but you're the father that raised her.

Um, she's truly her own person.

Like, you know, she might've worn her mom's dress and somebody might've styled her hair like her mom or whatever for one day.

Um, but she's like kind of,

goth girl she's yeah i saw that when she came up here her hair is super short anna's hair has never been like that but the press will actually do what they'll do is they'll if her hair looks different and they need a headline they will try to find some picture or if it's not that then they'll move down to the dress we'll find anna in a purple dress spitting image