Skip to playerSkip to main contentSkip to footer
  • yesterday
Transcript
00:00I've spent my whole life distancing myself from my mother Jane Mansfield the sex symbol
00:09Jane Mansfield has lead from total obscurity to the most photographed woman in show business
00:16how do you account for your meteoric rise to plane I use my pinup type publicity to get my
00:23foot in the door her career made me want to do it differently but I want to understand her now I
00:31was three years old when my mom died and I don't have any memories of her and then my dad died in
00:392006 I've never talked to my siblings about their experiences I don't know how the hell you got me
00:47to do this there we are that's how my grandmother used to kiss it I know you're not a fan of talking
00:52about this stuff anything you ask you know I'm there for you you have all these memories and
01:00I'm envious of that in the beginning I had her to myself she'd take me everywhere when you're a kid
01:06you don't know anything else this is life talk to me about the persona it was actually a character
01:12this is a kind of an act you do isn't it the public pays to see me a certain way and they get their
01:18money's way I looked the other way because I knew she was really smart at home she was just janky I've
01:27heard things that are really ugly I don't know that I want to know those ugly things something that I've
01:35also realized keeping a secret doesn't honor anyone she always had me she knew that but seems like at
01:43times it wasn't enough I pulled out this picture couldn't believe what I was seeing it was like the
01:49floor fell out from underneath me why didn't he tell me reclaiming our family story that is what this is
02:05about for me because she's a part of me I want to know her as Jane my mom Jane

Recommended