How Angela Lansbury helped her daughter Deirdre Shaw escape Charles Manson
foxnews.comDame Angela Lansbury may be remembered best for her magnificent voice and the enchanting roles she played, but she also died having been a fiercely protective parent, navigating her daughter away from the infamous murderer and cult leader Charles Manson.
In a candid interview with the Daily Mail from 2014, Lansbury shared that her daughter Deirdre Shaw had gotten involved with the wrong crowd. "It pains me to say it but, at one stage, Deidre was in with a crowd led by Charles Manson.
She was one of many youngsters who knew him – and they were fascinated. He was an extraordinary character, charismatic in many ways, no question about it." Lansbury reveals that both her daughter and son Anthony had experimented with drugs.
Dame Angela Lansbury passed away peacefully in her sleep, just five days before her 97th birthday. (Dominic Lipinski/PA Images) "Certainly, I have no doubt we would have lost one or both of our two if they hadn't been removed to a completely different milieu," she revealed. "It started with cannabis but moved on to heroin.There were factions up in the hills above Malibu that were dedicated to deadly pursuits," she said of her children's habits.
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