Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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I think this man has gone through a complete media hurricane and somehow managed to become this amazing father. And I just really am so grateful and thankful to have you here, Mr. Larry Burkhead.
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Chapter 2: What challenges did Larry face during Anna's pregnancy?
But I will say this, he would walk in the room and there would be a baby name book on the bed and we would just be looking at it and I'd kick it with my foot. Because I was trying to be respectful. But then there was a point where he came to me and he was like, are you excited? I'm like, yeah, I'm really excited and stuff. And then, but I couldn't tell anybody the whole time.
I couldn't tell my mom. I couldn't tell this. Now she did ask me to call your mom and ask her what blood type you are. And I was like, that's weird. What do you, what do you want to know that for? And she's like, because I'm going to have to have a special shot because I'm this type of blood. You know what I'm talking about?
Like, and I'm like, I was like, that's the first time I ever heard this before. And I was like, oh, okay. So I told her and then she's like, yeah, I have to have the shot because your mom said this or whatever. Mom's my mom's like, why do you want to?
I was like, I just want to, you know, I was thinking about giving blood or something, you know, I just made something up, you know, I couldn't tell her. Mom's like, I don't even, you know, but I just, I couldn't tell anybody. And it was like such a weird thing.
And I remember as she started like getting bigger and bigger, I went to a mall in Sherman Oaks and she was like, she always loved shopping online, boxes all the time in a home shopping club. I didn't even think that existed when I was with her, but it still did because there's boxes every single day. And there was nothing that like she saw on infomercials or whatever she didn't buy.
But she said, I want something really pretty, some nice maternity stuff or whatever. She goes, can you go get me some stuff? And I was like, okay. Um, so I went down and it was like a motherhood, something stored, some chain store, you know? And, um, I remember, and this happened every time there was a gift or a special occasion. I, I felt like I was inadequate because I was not the oil man.
So I felt like, you know, I had, if I had to always buy more, do more, you know, and even if I couldn't afford it, you know, I had to do it, you know? Um, And so I was in there and I, and I had the money like for clothes and stuff. I was just, you know, it was just one of those things. I was always just kind of felt like that.
So I was like trying to pick out pretty stuff and, you know, and, and, um, I got like all these outfits to the front register. And I remember going over to the register and, um, She's like, oh, you got some nice stuff. Just small talk shit. And then I'm like, okay. And she's like, okay, so give me the name of the mother for the registry. And I stopped and I just froze.
And I felt like an out of body experience because I was like, she just fucking asked me what the mother's name was. And I... And as small as the question was from her that she asked everybody, probably. To me, it was like, it was a wake-up call for the fact that you will not, that this is not the normal situation that my twin brother experienced with anybody.
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Chapter 3: How did Larry cope with the media scrutiny?
Like, you know, I was like, um, and she's like, um, leave me alone. And so she was like overdoing it. The girl was doing her hair and it wasn't somebody she knew. It was like someone they just put. So there was no loyalty there. So I was kind of really like, you know, I was like, oh shit. And, um, and I was like, well, you know, there, I just don't want anybody to say anything.
So Anna turns to the girl, she goes, oh, I'm gaining weight for a role that I'm playing. And it was like, it was so over like the opposite direction of what was going on. Right. That I was like, okay, this is going to go downhill.
Yeah.
So I say, look, I'm going to go invoice for my photos that I took on a different job or whatever. And I was like, I'm going to, I'll be back. And she's like flipping through a magazine. You know, when you get to the salon, you're doing the magazine. She's like, um. oh my God, these are so cute glasses, Chanel glasses or whatever, go get me these. And I was like, okay, whatever.
So she rips the page out and hands it to me. I said, I'll stop by the mall on my way back and see if I can find them. And I'm like going, are these fucking glasses going to be like $2,000 like the rest of the ones that she has? Because I'm like sitting there trying to get my money for my pictures and I'm like trying not to say, you know, I don't have all of this money.
Yeah.
And, um, I mean, I have credit cards and things I can do, but I'm like, you know, I'm, I'm just honest. I'm like, it wasn't like, you know, um, her birthdays and Christmas wiped me out every year, you know, like, you know, so, um, I was like, all right, um, I'll just see what I can do. So I went to the, um, to, I went to the FedEx, whatever, just throw my invoices off.
And, um, and I went by the glass place and they're like, these glasses aren't out yet. These are like, they come out soon, but they don't have them or whatever. It's like, you know, like when they put new shit in magazines and it's like not there yet. So I went back to the hair salon. I didn't have the glasses. Anna said, what took you so long? I was like, I was just doing my invoices, you know?
And she went totally off about this pair of sunglasses. And to this day, I still, it's a head scratcher. And I was like, I'm sorry, I didn't get them. I'm like, I'm literally, I'm sorry. I asked, I'm like, here, call the fucking store yourself. Like they don't have them. They don't know out yet. And I'm going to get my own ride home. I was like, okay.
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Chapter 4: What role did Anna's family play in her life and after her passing?
Yes.
To talk to an attorney.
Yes.
But she told me that she was the one that called child services. Her mom did. Yeah, her mom called. Because her mom was trying to fight to take the baby from Anna at the time.
For what reason?
Well, it was just weird. Or saying that she, like, Anna's in no shape. And at that time, though, to backtrack, I think she was more doing, like, a lot of press stuff. It wasn't until Anna died she was trying to actually take the baby. But they had, there was a lot of stuff going on between Anna and, you know, she said she rang the doorbell. Anna said, get lost.
You know, that whole thing that was...
I feel like it went zero to a hundred. Like, I feel like, like the Bahamas was literally a curse for her.
Yeah.
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Chapter 5: How did Larry navigate the media frenzy surrounding Anna's death?
Your mom wants you to bring the car back. And he was losing weight. He was like, it was something with his appearance was off. And it got to the point where when she left and went to the Bahamas, he was still back doing what he was doing in the States. But Daniel, everybody that knows Anna's story, and you know this as well, that was her rock. That was her everything.
And to see her- They grew up together.
Yeah. Yeah. And they were more like brothers and sisters in their relationship. And to see her, I don't want to say turn her back or ignore, but to not make him the focus. Right. And he had trouble getting a hold of her, he said. And, you know, he told people and stuff. So there was this whole big thing with that. But... And he didn't want to come to the Bahamas. He was scared to fly.
And it's weird. He's scared to fly. I'm scared to fly. We share the birthday. We had some similarities.
Is that why he didn't want to fly here?
Yeah. I go through phases. I don't. I just don't.
I get it. I understand.
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Chapter 6: What challenges did Larry face while raising Dannielynn?
But Daniel went to the Bahamas. And after he passes away and stuff, it's just he's supposed to be buried in the Bahamas. Mm-hmm. but there's a lot of press stuff going on. And a lot of people, because the ratings are through the roofs on all these shows, they can't get enough of it.
I know.
And it was on every channel night after night. And it wasn't just like entertainment TV. It was Fox News, CNN. And, you know, it was like the next big scandal. And so because of that, a lot of people were paying for access to Anna and she was, media deals were being arranged, you know, on her behalf. And, Maybe she did some on her own. I don't know. I wasn't there.
But a lot of stuff in the past, she didn't really do her own deals.
Right.
But I've been told that she might have done some of these herself, but I don't know because I wasn't there. But I do know like, you know, I knew money was not free flowing for her before she left. I knew that everything depended upon the next job.
That's why she started the website.
Yeah. Well, and I think that was one of the things because she thought it was going to be the next big thing. I think she was kind of a little bit ahead of her time in some ways. But I think also it was kind of like, you know, F you to E, you know, like I'll do my own show. Even though they were, they had a good relationship, but they were doing specials and stuff.
She thought she wanted a hundred percent of the pie instead of, you know, a piece of it.
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Chapter 7: How does Larry honor Anna's legacy for their daughter?
I don't know. But at the end of the day, everything seemed to center around deals.
Right.
So how, um, Daniel's still in the morgue. I want to say, you know, weeks have passed, you know, then Anna and Howard show up in the cover of people magazine. And there she's in a white wedding dress and he's, you know, in the boat. And then, you know, they're jumping off a boat and all this stuff. And the medium, different people started to say, Hey, look, something's not right with this.
Her son's still in the morgue. Has he been buried? And like, what's, you know, and then, yeah, it was just, it was weird, weird, but the timing of it was crazy. critical because the government was getting ready to grant my paternity test in the Bahamas.
Right.
The states were having trouble doing it because she purposely did not come back to the US. Right. So I had dueling actions going on. And so in the Bahamas, they were like, the heat was on them and they don't care about celebrity. Like, you know, it's like people live there, they're celebrities that live there, but it's not like their focus.
And, but they didn't like the fact that this basically kind of was essentially being played out as kind of like a kidnapping, a post-birth kidnapping, or pre-birth even maybe. So they were like, let's just get this over with. So they ordered the paternity test two weeks prior to Anna passing away. And, um, when I talked to her, you know, I would go back and forth and stuff.
And it was, you guys were still talking during this time.
I sent the baby Christmas presents for the first Christmas. I didn't get to see her, you know? And I, I, uh, imagine if you will, um, going through everything that I went through and picking out names and the ultrasounds and the fear and the not knowing and the,
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