Larry Birkhead: I Tried to Help Anna Nicole Smith

While Howard K. Stern is working on an Oscar nomination for his ability to conjure up fake tears, the real baby's daddy is working on moving forward with his life.

Larry Birkhead says he tried to save his former lover from the ravages of drug addiction, while also saying that seeing the ultrasound of his baby with Smith was "one of the happiest moments of my life."

But Birkhead won't say anything about his last meeting with Anna Nicole Smith - because it could "come back to haunt" him later.

In an interview with the New York Daily News, Birkhead claims that he tried to force Anna Nicole to kick her drug habits after she got pregnant with Dannielynn Hope, but that his efforts just got him "pushed to the side," and that he had no control over what she did after that.

Before that, however, Birkhead says that he and Anna Nicole shopped for baby clothes together and that Smith "made [him] sing to the baby at night."

Birkhead wouldn't talk about his last meeting with Anna Nicole. He did admit to crying when he saw the birth certificate with Howard K. Stern's name on it. Real tears, that is.

Probably similar to those of Britney Spears after reading this Isaac Cohen interview.