I had such high hopes for Larry Birkhead after reading and writing about his daughter's eye condition. Now, not so much.
Birkhead took his daughter, Dannielynn, to visit her mother's grave -the late Anna Nicole Smith. While I'm very respectful of anyone who wants to visit the grave of a loved one, and there's nothing wrong with Larry wanting his little girl to know her mother in whatever way is possible since she's no longer on this earth, but... why in hell would he have to bring along Entertainment Tonight?
Isn't it something private and sacred when one visits a cementary? Why would a father feel the need to exploit his baby girl?
Of course Larry Birkhead gave an interview with E.T....gotta make money somehow right? And E.T. will air this over several days, to get the most bang for their buck most likely.
Entertainment Tonight:
LARRY AND DANNIELYNN BIRKHEAD VISIT THE FINAL RESTING PLACE OF ANNA NICOLE SMITH ON THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF HER DEATH
February 5, 2008 (Los Angeles, CA)– ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT's JANN CARL was exclusively with Larry Birkhead and daughter Dannielynn this week in Nassau, Bahamas as the 17-month-old made her first trip back to visit her mother and brother's graves, one year after her mother's sudden death.
In an a multi-part interview to begin airing on Wednesday, February 6th, Birkhead says the visit is difficult for him, but he arranged it for his daughter, "It's tough. Even though she doesn't understand, it was important for us to come. One day I can tell her that we went to visit her mom." When they arrived at the unmarked gravesites, Dannielynn placed a pink toy turtle on Anna Nicole's plot and whispered, "mama."
On why the graves of Anna Nicole and Daniel are without tombstones, Birkhead says, "A rough draft came back with a sketch of a picture I didn't care for. I could just hear her hitting me over the head saying, 'Why did you let that picture go down!?'" Birkhead reveals that the design of the headstone will be "so grand and big. It's going to encompass Daniel's stone too."
When asked how he feels about making the journey from Los Angeles to Nassau, Birkhead speaks candidly, "I don't like the fact that they're here, I never did. I know that Daniel didn't want to be here and I know that his mother was only here because of what was going on between us with the paternity question. To me it feels really odd." On if he has considered moving the graves, he says, "I'm going to leave the decision to Dannielynn when she's older. It would probably be very hard, if not impossible to take both of them and I definitely don't want to separate them."
In an effort to keep Anna's memory alive for their daughter, Birkhead tells ET, "I keep a lot of memories around. I quiz her and she knows Mama. I say, 'Where's Mama?' and she'll give Mama a kiss on the picture."
I absolutely believe Larry should keep Anna's memory alive for his little girl but to take TV camera's along for the ride, is sad and exploitive.
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