Guest there were suggestions and i thought it was the most enlightening repression that anyone could get into. I was quite opposed anything of that nature. So i had always said that i never wanted to be an actress in this profession and they kept knocking me in the back of the head. Eventually i felt that i had to turn it around. Cspan what was your first acting job . Guest it was a small independent film. Very few people have seen the film. I have gone back to school and i had planned on teaching and writing a novel. That was the track that i was on. I had spent time on the stage quite a bit and my teacher thought that i should audition for a role. In the and the way he coming to do it was simply by telling me that they needed someone who had an athletic build and someone who played High School Sports and i have done that. And i looked at it and i thought, oh, what harm would that do. So i ended up with the role. Cspan what year was that . Guest well, the film came out in 1997. Probab
britney and their mom tina. what did she like to do, clothes? clothes. very, very girly. yes. loved doing hair and stuff like that. she was just a girly-girl. a little southern bell? uh-huh. uh-huh, yes. the little southern bell grew into a beautiful woman, sometimes blonde, sometimes brew net. brooke always drew people into her lively or bit. really spontaneous, fun, hilarious, the life of the party. could literally make friend with anyone. dina renee was one of them. she would come over to my house and say we re going out tonight, we re having fun. that meant one thing on fall saturdays in knoxville, volunteer s football at the university of tennessee. the strip is completely packed. there are ball fans everywhere. it is so much fun, lots of cooking out, lots and lots of fun. lots and lots of orange? lots of orange. was this something that
i just asked her to sit on the couch. resit there for a second and i said, you know, is brooke morris your daughter. she said, she is and she s been murdered. she passed out cold. so we had to get her to come back to. i think we were all just shocked. when tina came to she could hardly process what had happened. it was almost like it was not real, you know. you ve got the wrong person. it is not her. but it was real. brooke was dead. she had been shot three times, once in her neck, once in her chest and an execution-style shot to the back of her head. i could not believe that another human could be so heartless. you know, they re asking can us these questions like do you know anybody that would want to harm your sister? we re like, we don t have a clue. i could not even think of
that just stole my heart in an instant. did that make it all better? it did. when you met your grand some. it absolutely did, yes. how was brooke as a mom? did she just take right to it? oh, yeah. they move io a house and both had jobs but the young couple soonlize r that family life came with grown-up responsibilities and problems. did she confide in you at all about how things were not great at home? yeah, of course. she talked to her friends about it. we tried to be as supportive as we can but we were all on a different level than she was. here we were still single and she was married for a baby, so hard for us to kind of relate in that area. but i think she she knew that it wasn t going to work, you know. after two years the couple split. brooke moved out and clayton stayed in the house with their son, but brooke s family says she and clayton were committed
rest at just 23 years old, and while her friends said their goodbyes her mother tina admits to being in denial about brooke s death. i kept thinking, you know, she s going to call. she s going to call, i know she s going to call and she s going to say, mom, you know, it was a big mixup, you know. i just couldn t grasp that she was gone forever. tina had a veryd har time. i remember being at her funeral and tina was holding this picture of brooke, just crying, just hysterically. i mean two people had to carry her to the grave site. along with grief there was something else. how scary was it to you that whoever did this was out there? oh, very scary. i mean, because they had taken something from you, i mean what are their motives for us? rome county investigators tasked with bringing brooke s