“As I read the book, I saw no resemblance between the woman Christina described and the mother I knew and loved,” LaLonde said. Now, I feel only contempt and pity for her. “I’m heartsick, ashamed and disgusted that she could write such a book about her own mother. “I had no indication how Tina (Christina) felt about my mother,” LaLonde told the former Evening Chronicle of Allentown. But LaLonde said in a 1978 interview that she had a good relationship with Christina until her sister wrote the book. Orloski asked that his client not grant interviews about the lawsuit. LaLonde describes the Hollywood legend as a “good, kind and loving mother.”
And in the lawsuit, LaLonde contends the book was intended to “defame the dead for crass commercial purposes.” “Mommie Dearest,” which in 1981 was made into a movie starring Faye Dunaway, casts Joan Crawford as a child-abusing, alcoholic, sexually obsessed woman.įor years, LaLonde has denounced the book as fiction. LaLonde has “repeatedly, constantly and proudly represented herself in her personal life as an adopted daughter of Joan Crawford,” the suit states.Īnother allegation is that Christina Crawford made statements that LaLonde has been “institutionalized,” which LaLonde claims is false.Ĭhristina Crawford’s supposedly defamatory statements constitute outrageous, intentional, reckless and malicious conduct, according to the suit. That statement is false and makes it seem as if LaLonde is illegitimate, according to the suit.
According to the suit, Christina supposedly meant that Cathy, Cynthia and the fourth Crawford child, Christopher, were bought on the black market and never legally adopted. In addition, LaLonde alleges that Christina Crawford harmed her reputation by implying that only Christina was legally adopted.
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