At Christmas, the children were photographed as being gifted tons of items. Crawford supposedly kept Christopher tied up in bed in a “sleep safe” device and she also trussed Christina up in the shower at night.ħ. Christina says she was once starved for days when she refused to eat an undercooked steak that was still bloody, all in a bid for her mother to further control her.Ħ. Crawford was prone to what Christina called “night raids,” in which she would wake the children up drunk and make them clean messes they hadn’t necessarily made for hours on end.ĥ. Crawford then made Christina wear the dress for a week in order to humiliate her.Ĥ. Christina had a favorite dress until she provoked her mother into shredding it. In a scene that’s become synonymous with the film, she is said to have dragged her daughter by the hair yelling, “No wire hangers, no wire hangers!” while beating her with one until her “ears rang.”ģ. Crawford hated wire hangers, and reportedly once woke up her daughter in the middle of the night for using them. But after Crawford’s third marriage fell apart she renamed the children.Ģ. and Phillip Terry Jr., (after his adoptive father). When Crawford first adopted Christina and Christopher, they were named Joan Jr.
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