you? i think that she did. i do. i think that she could not break out of herself. she d come up at night, and i d be in bed already and she would come and sit on my bed to say good night. once she said, i love you so much, and i was so embarrassed, because she d always been so remote and kind of cold, and it was so kind of unexpected, you know. did you tell her that you loved her? yes. i think that she did, because she really truly thought that it was the best thing for he her niece, me, and she had been very close to my father apparently. but we never spoke of it. so you had both gertrude and the grandmother trying to separate gloria from her mother, and imagine being a child and having that happen.
now, because i have lived so long, and i have seen it almost as a kind of fairytale or some kind of mythical thing that happened to somebody. in 1934, this 10-year-old girl was the center of a bitter public battle in the courts. the trial for the custody of little gloria vanderbilt was front page news. i did not really know too much about the court case probably until i was 12 or so. really until my mom wrote her book. once upon a time, true story by gloria vanderbilt. the doll house. it is fun to make drawings of everybody with my cry yon, but soon i started to cut out my drawings into paper dolls and two beautiful ones of my mother, and flor ya, and that is my n e
feathers as ms. gloria va vanderbilt arrives in her chariot known as the sun goddess and they danced until dawn. she wanted to have a good time. she was just a baby, you know. you know, she said to me once when i was older, and she said, you know, when you were a baby you were so little, i could not bear to pick you up, because i thought that i might hurt you. and you know, we just never got together so to speak. the exampleple, she rented a house in caan and she rented another house where i stayed with dodo. and my mom s life revolved around her nurse she called dodo and her grandmother morgan. my surrogate father was my grandmother morgan whoad moved in with us. she kind of took over and she was so crazy. she was really crazy.
i m the third, and next to him is gloria s father, remg nagina. and reggie was a great deal of fun. he lost legendary amounts of money at canfield s ka see foe in newport. jewels and earning. and new york s 400 and he married my grandmother gloria morgan. she was this great beauty. she was probably 17 or 18 when they got married. they didn t have much of a life together frankly. i mean they met, got married and after my mom was born, amazingly they went off on a extended trip for i think like six months. and left my newborn mom with some nurse. i mean if you think of nit this time frame as it was as far as history goes, people who had
and you see, she had not been that way before, and so it is kind of too late. and so she never kind of said this stuff to you? no, no, this is the first time. my plan was to finish at wheeler, and instead of going to college to go to the art students league in new york, and this is what i wanted to do and live at aunt gertrude s, and that is what i expected to do when i went out to california. but of course, it didn t turn out that way. wedding bells in santa barbara s ancient spanish mission as five bridesmaids received gloria vanderbilt, 17-year-old daughter of mr. reginald vanderbilt. do you remember the wedding day? oh, please. why? [ laughter ] that is for ggotten, but i remember everything about it.