Mia Farrow reveals she was betrayed by Bette Davis daughter: I lost all respect for her

It was death of a friendship on the Iberian Peninsula.Mia Farrow, 80, is getting candid on Bette Davis’ daughter, B.D.Hyman’s 1985 memoir, “My Mother’s Keeper.”While speaking to Interview Magazine on Tuesday, the actress said she thought the memoir was “a trashy book.”The “Rosemary’s Baby” star was close friends Davis, who died in 1989 at age 81.

“[Bette] had worked with my father when I was 12, and we were all in Spain, and she had a very disagreeable daughter named B.D.who was my age,” Farrow recounted.

“And Bette wanted to take her to every village and museum, but she didn’t want to go anywhere.We were all staying in the same hotel.

I, on the other hand, could barely not raise my hand to say, ‘Can I come?'”Reflecting on the book years later, the actress, who starred in the 1978 film “Death on the Nile” with Davis, stated that “B.D.betrayed her mother in a horrible way, wrote a trashy book and stuff.

So we’ve known each other since childhood but I lost all respect for her.I really loved her mother, by the way.”Hyman, who is now 78, explained to People in 1985, “I wrote the book because I love her and I want to reach her.”“I could have written the manuscript and sent it to Mother and not published it.

She wouldn’t have read it,” she continued.“She won’t listen to anything she doesn’t want to hear.

She hangs up the phone or walks out the door.So I went the only route I felt would reach her: the public forum.

What is seen by the world is the most important thing to Mother.This is essentially a public letter to my mother.”However, things didn’t go according to plan, as after the book went public, David disinherited her daughter.In response, the Hollywood star wrote an open letter in her own memoir, “This ‘N That.”“The sum total of your having written this book is a glaring lack of loyalty and thanks for the very privileged life I feel you have been given,” Davis penned.

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