The Amazingly True Story Of How Angela Lansbury Saved Her Daughter From The Manson Family...
13.10.2022 - 02:35
/ perezhilton.com
A silver lining of beloved stars passing on is we often hear stories about them we’d never heard before. Usually these stories are about meeting fans and being great people — this one is quite a bit different…
Angela Lansbury is known best either for being one of the queens of the cozy mystery on the longrunning Murder, She Wrote or for being a golden-voiced Disney staple in movies like Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Beauty and the Beast. Neither of these public images would lead you to believe she ever had anything to do with the most notorious murders of the 20th century, and yet… After her passing this week a tweet went viral revealing just that!
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A writer named Christopher Moloney shared:
Wait, WHAT?!?
The craziest thing about this story is that it’s 100% true.
Lansbury did indeed reveal in a 2014 interview with DailyMail.com that she and her family had a run-in with Charles Manson — something which got more terrifying after their escape!
She and husband Peter Shaw were living in the hills near Malibu in the 1960s when their teenage children, Anthony and Deidre, fell into some scary habits — Deidre with some scarier people! The actress recalled:
Angela took drastic measures most parents wouldn’t have. She moved the entire family away. And not just houses, she moved CONTINENTS!
Obviously most folks don’t have the luxury of quitting work for a whole year. But even those who do rarely give it all up just to protect their kids. And Angela’s sacrifice paid off. She explained:
Amazing. Deidre could have ended up in prison along with Manson’s other followers, who in 1969 were talked into killing seven people. They were in their teens and early 20s, too. Thankfully for her sake, her mother was the