Anna Nicole Smith called her mother Virgie Mae Hogan, who died successful 2018, "kind of a tyrant" and claimed Virgie would handcuff her to her furniture for days and "just bushed her mercilessly," according to Smith's friend and chap portion nine dancer identified successful the Netflix documentary arsenic "Missy."

Missy, who shares successful the movie that she ran distant from location astatine 13 aft being sexually abused, says she was understandably dilatory to spot radical astatine the time, but she trusted Smith and felt she had "no crushed to disbelieve her."

Smith's erstwhile idiosyncratic assistant Nathan Collins says successful the documentary that Smith "didn't similar to speech astir her childhood," but "she liked to speech astir however overmuch she hated her family." And designer Pol' Atteu, Smith's go-to couturier and confidante, says, "She would ever archer me, she hated her mother...The lone happening I knew that Anna ever wanted to bash was ne'er to beryllium similar Virgie."

Born Vickie Lynn Hogan, Smith asked to be called Nicky astatine the portion nine she started working astatine aft divorcing hubby Billy Wayne Smith. They joined erstwhile she was 17 and had lad Daniel successful January 1986.

Smith astatine archetypal reminded Missy of "an emu trying to fly," the erstwhile dancer says, but "no 1 needed to springiness her immoderate pointers connected however to pull a man. She knew what she was doing. And she doesn't request a batch of assistance manipulating anybody, she's really amended astatine it than me. Within a week oregon two, she was similar a pro."

"Frizzed-up hair, a batch of lipstick, a batch of oculus shadow, and…ample, to enactment it mildly," is however Marilyn Grabowski, erstwhile West Coast photograph exertion for Playboy, remembers Smith erstwhile she archetypal saw her successful photographs. "And I said, 'Whew, what americium I going to bash with this?'"

But Grabowski had Smith travel successful for a trial to spot if she had what it took for 1 of the infamous magazine's coveted Playmate spots. And erstwhile she saw the 23-year-old successful person, "she had that fantastic aura astir her of not trying excessively hard," Grabowski says. "She was conscionable this saccharine gal with this unthinkable face."

Smith was besides initially "terrified" of dropping the expanse during her archetypal trial shoot, truthful Grabowski recalls trying to easiness her fears and putting connected a grounds that the young hopeful had brought with her: Marilyn Monroe singing "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend." (Unsurprisingly, Monroe was Smith's idol.) "All of a sudden, she changed," the exertion says. "She was a antithetic person."

And Smith made the screen of the March 1992 contented of Playboy.

Missy says that, arsenic acold arsenic she knows, she was Smith's archetypal pistillate lover.

"I was truly successful emotion with her," she explains. Smith "had an insatiable appetite for sex, conscionable similar everything else. She enjoyed having sex...She got a batch of practice, she was bully astatine what she did."

Having been a unfortunate of abuse, Missy didn't spot men, but says she "found it precise casual to beryllium intimate" with Smith.

Early-1990s footage shows Smith connected the telephone discussing two big movie roles she was deciding between: The portion that yet went to Cameron Diaz in The Mask and the portion of a gangster's moll in Naked Gun 33 1/3, the movie she ended up doing. Both came retired successful 1994.

She told the idiosyncratic connected the enactment that she wanted to do The Mask with Jim Carrey but she'd lone been offered the "embarrassing" sum of $50,000. 

Smith met her biologic father, Donald Hogan, for the archetypal clip erstwhile she was 24.

In the film, her member Donnie Hogan recalls the time a backstage researcher called to inquire his dada if helium wanted to talk to his daughter—and without revealing who she was, Smith invited them retired to California. They had nary thought a Guess exemplary and Playboy's Playmate of the Year was going to conscionable them astatine the airport.

"You could archer she wanted a begetter fig successful her life," Donnie says, recalling however struck helium was by how much his nephew Daniel looked similar helium did arsenic a kid. Smith brought her dada and member to Disneyland and to the Playboy Mansion, wherever they met Hugh Hefner.

But it was acold from the happiest reunion connected earth. "My begetter is not a benignant of feline you privation to beryllium unsocial with," Donnie says. "You're not gonna consciousness safe. I mean, he's a monster."

"I was ever acrophobic of him," Donnie continues, adding that Donald was the benignant of feline who, erstwhile helium threatened to harm you, "you truly judge helium volition bash that." So, helium fto Smith cognize "straight up that everything astir him is true."

Missy alleges that, connected the level retired of L.A. aft their visit, Smith told her that Donald, who died successful 2009, "had tried to person enactment with her."

Apparently proceeding that allegation for the archetypal clip during his interrogation for the film, Donnie says "that would beryllium similar him" but "it couldn't be" true. "I was determination each measurement of the way. But," helium adds, "you cognize what? I wouldn't enactment it past him...I conjecture I wasn't determination each the time. So it could beryllium true."

Missy tearfully says her person was "so disappointed" by what happened.

J. Howard Marshall had bought a location for Smith successful Spring, Texas, adjacent though she turned down respective matrimony proposals, Missy recalls, telling the octogenarian lipid tycoon that she wanted to marque a sanction for herself archetypal truthful radical wouldn't telephone her a gold-digger.

When they did yet wed in 1994, Marshall wanted to follow her lad Daniel truthful that helium would beryllium his heir and "there would beryllium thing that his household could bash to frost them out," Smith's lawyer Kelly Moore says successful the film.

But erstwhile she relayed that connection to the lawyer she was moving for astatine the time, Moore recalls, "the lawyer looked astatine maine and conscionable rolled his eyes. The lawyer was conscionable wholly dismissive, which was truly peculiar."

Moore says she was "impressed" by the emotion Smith and Marshall—26 and 89 astatine the time, respectively—had for each different and "how well-suited" they seemed. "And that seems terribly improbable to say," she adds. Smith was "such a young, voluptuous pistillate and helium was a small aged gnome of a man. But they were some benignant of bonzer radical that different radical were ever trying to instrumentality pieces of."

They were "protection for each other," Moore says. "They got each other."

What turned retired to beryllium a life-long conflict with medicine pill maltreatment began aft Smith had bosom enhancement country successful the 1980s, Missy recalls, the then-aspiring exemplary having said that she felt the lone happening holding her backmost from stardom was her boobs being excessively small.

"Valium, Xanax, Lortabs, Vicodin and the Klonopin," Missy says. "From that clip on, she was ever taking them. There was thing she could bash to halt it."

In a TV interrogation from the 1990s shown successful the film, Smith laments each the tabloid attraction paid to her, protesting, "I'm conscionable 1 small idiosyncratic and I've got 50 things thrown astatine me, and I'm like, you know, what did I do? What did I ever do, but, you know, instrumentality pills? [Laughing] Well, instrumentality pills and portion alcohol. But I've ne'er wounded anybody!"

Missy says that Smith was besides nether a batch of accent astatine the clip due to the fact that she was trying to fell her cause usage from Marshall, who was backmost location successful Texas portion his young woman was moving successful L.A. 

"I'm starting to announcement changes successful her personality," Missy recalls. "She's getting to wherever she's nary longer grateful to Mr. Marshall. She's truly treating him similar an ATM benignant of now." Marshall's recognition paper had an "ungodly limit," she adds, and Smith "maxes it out."

The movie includes snippets of answering instrumentality messages Marshall, who died successful 1995, near for his bride, saying things like, "Please telephone your man, I emotion you," and "this is your man, trying to find his woman fair." One signaling has her picking up, and helium tells her helium had a imagination that helium was enactment connected world to "try to marque beingness amended for you than erstwhile you were young." She replies, "I know, honey. Tell maine tomorrow, I'll hide tonight." He tells Smith, "Take care, precious package."

Starting erstwhile she was in Playboy, "literally everybody was ever telling her she needed to suffer weight," Bonnie Gayle, the sister of Smith's erstwhile lawyer and companion Howard K. Stern, says successful the film. "So she ended up having an eating disorder... She didn't spot herself arsenic beauteous due to the fact that she didn't consciousness beauteous inside."

Which, Gayle explains, is however Smith ended up the look of the value nonaccomplishment supplement TrimSpa, which helped her suffer 25 to 30 pounds. 

But about a period later, Gayle says she got an urgent telephone from Smith's assistant, telling her that Smith—impatient to driblet much weight—had fundamentally stopped eating. "There was a achromatic ring, similar a achromatic sheet, astir her mouth," Gayle recalls. "And it was dehydration...She was drinking similar possibly 2 inches of h2o a time and taking a diuretic...She could hardly talk."

Gayle says she warned Smith that she wouldn't unrecorded done it if she tried that again, and Smith replied, "'I know.'"

After Daniel's abrupt decease from an accidental cause overdose astatine the property of 20 connected Sept. 10, 2006, conscionable 3 days aft Smith gave commencement to daughter Dannielynn Birkhead, Smith was "a wreck," recalls covering decorator Pol' Atteu. "She didn't privation to live. Everything that she did was for Daniel. Every azygous speech was what she did wrong, blamed herself the full time. She said, 'I conscionable privation to die. I don't merit to beryllium here. It should've been me.'"

Smith died connected Feb. 8, 2007. A consequent autopsy determined the origin was combined cause intoxication, with the "major component" being chloral hydrate, a slumber aid. She was laid to remainder a period aboriginal adjacent to her lad successful the Bahamas. 

Dannielynn's begetter Larry Birkhead was awarded custody and has been raising their present 16-year-old daughter ever since.