Dearest — Mommie

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Here’s a social media post and caption tailored for (1981), the cult classic bio-drama about Joan Crawford. Mommie Dearest

Modern analyses often use the film and book as a case study for various mental health conditions. Critics and psychologists frequently point to behaviors consistent with: : How the lighting and set design (the

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But here’s the tragedy: Christina Crawford insists the scene was toned down from reality. In interviews, she has claimed that the real wire hanger incident involved being beaten so severely she missed school for a week. Turning that trauma into a drag queen catchphrase is, for Christina, a "second trauma."

: The memoir's urgency was partly fueled by Joan Crawford's final act of exclusion—cutting her eldest children, Christina and Christopher, out of her will for "reasons which are well known to them". Psychological Perspectives