The mother of the late Anna Nicole Smith predicted that the fight over her granddaughter would get "ugly," while dismissing Anna Nicole's rags-to-riches self-portrayal as mere myth-making.
In an interview on Good Morning America, a disconsolate, almost disgusted Virgie Arthur described Anna Nicole as "wild and crazy," and reiterated that she'd warned her daughter to stop using drugs.
She added that she "really sincerely" worries about five-month-old Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, and wants her to be with her father.
Of course, it's unclear if that is Howard K. Stern or Larry Birkhead. Hence why Arthur, when asked about the pending paternity battle, said: "Oh yeah, it'll get ugly."
Oddly - and almost unprompted - Arthur also took the opportunity to debunk the myth that Anna Nicole's rise to fame was a classic rags-to-riches tale.
"Why do you tell people stuff like that?" Arthur said she asked Anna Nicole. "I'll do whatever it takes," replied Anna Nicole. "If my name's out there, I make money."
It's sad, but true. In many ways, Anna was just like Kim Kardashian and a handful of other pseudo celebrities. Famous just for being famous.
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February 10th, 2007 12:01 AM
Virgie Arthur is a heartless woman with no love for her own child. She has bad mouthed Anna before her death and continues after her passing. It is easy to understand why Anna left home very young to get away from this cold unloving mother and stayed away. But here Virgie comes claiming concern for her granddaughter...who stands to inherit millions. She has not said or shown any sorrow over Anna's passing, just more bad mouthing. If one doesn't love their own child how could she truly be concerned about Dannielynn. It's the money she is interested in not the child. Hopefully this child will not be allowed around this uncaring woman. Anna grew up without a father and an unloving mother, no wonder she craved love and affection to such a great extent. Anna's son loved his mother without doubt, which shows Anna was a far better mother than Virgie was.
Virgie has dyed her hair blond, aquired a stlye similar to Anna's, if she thinks this will give her the appearance of beauty that her daughter had, she is badly mistaken, she is still the same fat, homely woman who was always jealous of Anna as a teen and a sucessful adult.
February 21st, 2007 1:06 PM
Where do you get off judging Anna's mother bases on her looks and also based on what the media portrayes? WHy dont you gather your facts 1st. Dont depend on Anna for her mind has been in an altered state for a long time and obviously we can blame not you but your parents for raising such a superficial person who judges people on their looks and your so called intentions.
February 22nd, 2007 12:47 AM
Virgie Arthur is the devil. She deserves to be stoned at dawn for the hell on earth she caused her daughter. She is evil and greed incarnate. She has no conscience and on the stand sounds like the white-trash, ignorant piece of filth that she is. Anna said it best: Virgie has always been jealous of her daughter. When Anna was raped, Virgie blamed Anna. And at the same time Virgie started to hate Anna because Anna was attractive and Virgie is a hollow, hacking humpbacked hag.
If Virgie had offered her daughter an ounce of compassion after Anna's beloved Daniel died--INSTEAD OF VIRGIE DOING EVERYTHING SHE COULD TO CASH IN AND GET ATTENTION BY BLAMING ANNA AND HOWARD FOR THE BOY'S TRAGIC DEATH--then Anna would have probably forgiven the horror show that was her mother. But Virgie is out for whatever attention and money she can glom on to--then and now--because she knows she'll be forgotten ten seconds after this nonsense is over...except as the punchline to bad late-night jokes.
February 22nd, 2007 12:57 AM
And while I'm on a tear here: If Larry Dickhead smiles his self-satisfied smirk one more time I'm going to break my television. That blond nobody is and always will be nobody. The only hope he has of anyone remembering his name is if he lucks out and it turns out that his limp penis was able to get it up once and he accidentally fathered Howard K. Stern's daughter with Anna. Regardless: That blond punk will never be a true father to that poor baby girl. He's only after a payday and the same sort of attention that Virgie wants. They are both disgusting and vile.
And if that poor baby girl is the birthchild of Larry D., then how ubergross for him to be smirking all over the place while DanniLynn's mama lies cold and alone on a slab waiting for a burial that he has had a hand in delaying for God's sake. What a horrid excuse for a human being. He and Virgie are cut from the same stinky bolt of cloth. Disgusting and foul creatures both.
February 23rd, 2007 12:01 AM
I think it`s just to wierd that Anna Niaka (Vickie) died just after her son . There is something going on and I hope they find out . I also think it`s time to find the truth about who the daddy of this little baby is to. It`s just one mess right after the other . Note; doesn`t any one remember the reality show she did?
February 27th, 2007 9:23 AM
Dear Shelly,
I totally disagree with your comment. When Anna Nicole Smith had her tv show on E her family came out of the wood work. Anna tried to befriend her family on her show only to realize the cousin was just using her. Anna's family are users and dont give a damn about Anna and that child. Anna's mother only saw anna as pay check and nothing more. During Anna's life Virgie Aruther went to the tabloids exposing how horrible she thought her daughter was. Only in death does she comming running to her daughter's side to be the "supportive mother". Where was she for ten years when Anna needed her, "talking to the tabloids" thats where. Even in death she disrespects her daughter by allowing her daughter to decay further by delaying the burial. Anna baught a plot next to her son in the Bahamas. I don't see that as a sighn she wanted be buried in some hick plot in Texas. Virgie even plans to disrespect her grandson's plot by un-earthing him and bring him to "Texas" I really hope no sane person gives her any right to do anything then to get on plane and go back to Hick life in Texas.
Virgie go home and keep collecting the money from your appreance's. I hope you lose your case and your hick lawyer charges you for every sent that he has spent on you. Virgie you do not deserve anything other than a reality check.
March 1st, 2007 2:00 AM
Picture this scenario:
Fast-forward 19 years: Anna Nicole didn't die and is approaching 50-- and Dannielynn is 20--
The headline: "Daughter of Playboy Bunny/Heiress Anna Nicole Smith Dies of Overdose at Age 20".
The tabloids are having a field day-- Anna's past is regurgitated, along with the already-well-known history of Dannilynn's various escapades-- and along with other facts not well-known: drug arrests (taken from mom's stash), abortion, drunk-driving, etc.
We learn more: as mom aged, she became more and more jealous of Danni's beauty, and the different guys mom brings home have been eyeing Danni for years-- we find out that a couple of them had even molested her. It has been publicized around the time of her son Daniel's death that as a young boy he had wandered into his mom's bedroom several times only to find her in bed with one man or another (some during her marriage to Howard) and she didn't even stop engaging in sex when this happened; we found out this had happened to Danni as well, with one drunken guy trying to get her to join them.
Here is my point: what would most of us be saying about Anna Nicole at this time? Would our sympathies be with her or would we be lambasting her for her terrible job of bringing up Dannielynn?
How many would be of the opinion that even though Anna Nicole might have had it rough growing up, and even throughout her life, that she should have gotten it together to rear her daughter properly?
Now, if you are of the opinion that perhaps Anna Nicole never had much of a chance to do just that because she was so messed up, then I ask you this:
what about Anna's mother, Virgie?
The point I am attempting to make is that we don't seem to know much about Anna's mother's life at this time (except for the fact she was married several times and to at least one abuser, and was a deputy sheriff). Since patterns in families tend to repeat, with daughters marrying their fathers (meaning men very much like them), how do we know what Virgie went through? She was jealous of her daughter we are told-- well if she were molested also as a child, then she must have blamed herself as virtually all children do who have been through this; she must have seen her mother's jealousy and now she was experiencing the same thing. Since she blamed herself as a child (and never stopped subconsciously) she would tend to blame Vickie Lynn. Of course children are never to blame, but sadly, the mothers often are not only wracked with jealousy, they are taken back in time to their own experiences, together with the guilt.
Certainly those of us who have not been in this position (or have and have been through successful therapy) know that any adult engaging in this behavior should be thrown into prison (IMO for life). But people in this situation all-too-often are children in adult bodies which, of course, results in the "generational curse" since the patterns tend not to be broken.
People don't like complexity- they like things to be simple; good people are good and bad people are
bad-- with nothing in-between- at least when it comes to situations where outrageous behavior is concerned. We are angry and hurt for the victim and lash out at whom we perceive to be the villain- Virgie Arthur seems to be an excellent target as she doesn't tend to come across as a very sympathetic character-- it is easy to dislike her.
Again, I gave the scenario of the death of Dannielynn to suggest that the "poor victim" we see today-- Anna Nicole-- might be thought of quite differently had it become reality-- sympathy would be replaced with blame. Gone would be remembrances of her own troubled life since a young person would be dead who really never had a chance at a healthy life.
Dysfunctional adults tend to produce dysfunctional children who grow up to be dysfunctional adults-- ad infinitum if the pattern isn't broken. If you look at Anna Nicole's parenting of Daniel, you have to find much of it appalling; if you can forgive her of this because of her own past, why condemn Virgie and decide she doesn't love her daughter when so little is known about her? And again, I am not excusing her-- just bringing up issues that should be thought about, in fairness.
No, Virgie isn't beautiful, but Anna was; Virgie has been called ugly and worse; if we we're going to pillory her, let's not do it because of her looks. Did she have a "wild" daughter that she tried to beat into behaving right, while not facing what had made the child act the way she did? Was she wilfully ignorant out of her own fear and pain? How much did she know? What would she have been like if shows like "Dr Phil" and so many of books regarding co-dependency had been out there when Anna was a child and teen?
Just some things to think about...
March 1st, 2007 3:52 AM
Addendum:
The above commentary's having been said, I would have shuddered to think of the shattered Anna Nicole rearing Dannielynn. The thought of her mother's being the baby's guardian is pretty chilling as well-- the issue isn't the "Blame Game", but the reality of dysfunctionality-bigtime.
I would also be quite worried to think of Howard Stern's bringing up the child as well, since he has shown that he is too weak to stand up to destructive behavior in someone he cares for; he
"buckles" out of fear of being rejected.
From what I've seen of Larry Birkhead it seems that he is willing to take the steps necessary to be a good parent ( I didn't see him on the witness stand his second day of testimony). He has taken parenting classes, and we know that his standing up to Anna Nicole re her drug use probably was the reason she fled to the Bahamas-- quite possibly out of fear of eventually possibly losing custody of the child if she didn't turn her life around.
If she did, indeed, have Lupus, it is yet another tragedy, but she was indeed, a broken individual who could only pass that tragedy along to child she might have. We can only hope there was no HIV-- as Dannielynn has not been tested yet for anything- from residual drugs to disease.
It is so sad that Anna's death might have been the only thing that could save her child's future-- she might well have had sufficient money to successfully fight any attempt to have her child taken from her, especially were she to have remained in the Bahamas.
I doubt if Vickie Lynn Hogan Smith Marshall had a total of 6 hours of genuine joy in her entire life; how I wish it could have been otherwise.
March 7th, 2007 1:42 PM
It is so sad Anna had to die so young. I feel bad for her mother no matter what people are saying about her. No mother should go through what she has gone through. I do not belive any of the things are said about her. The love of a mother is unquestionable for a child, no matter what. So please leave the woman alone. She has been hit hard by loosing her daughter and grandson,no one should go through this pain. No one knows the truth exept Anna and her Mom herself. In the end everyone got the karma they had to get in life for whatever they have done. No mistake about that, everyone will get his/her karma for whatever we do. Hate doesn't resolve things in life,it makes matters worse. Let's respect what Anna wanted. She wanted love and peace. Let this people resolve their matters in their private ways and enough jugdging one or the other. It is a terrible loss for two young lifes and i wish they are both together and loved and in peace! It is sadd and tragic!
March 8th, 2007 3:42 AM
I think its awful the way people have talked about Anna's mother. I can assure you (even though I loved Anna's antics) that she put her mother through hell while she grew up.Then old "Gold Digging" Howard K. Stern comes into the picture & is a Gigolo for Anna's money. Just how many attorney's do you know that have 1 client? He was OBSESSED with her and the thoughts of getting the Marshall Estate.He got her addicted to drugs,fed them to her,kept her family & friends away and then he gets her to do that drugged up version of an interview that said her mom was no good. She was just angry cause her mom said Anna & Howard got Daniel addicted to drugs(some truth there,admit it!) and I can see why she wants Danny exumed & brought back & buried w/Anna in Texas. Howard is gonna lose his FREE home where hes hanging out and hes gonna have to work,therefore I see him leaving the Bahammas. So why should she be there? She only bought those plots so larry couldn't get to his real baby. Howard & his sister MAKE ME SICK. They better both hope hes not charged. God doesn't like UGLY and the one common denominator in these deaths is YEP--HOWARD K.STERN