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And believe it or not, these two events were connected.
And Debbie said to me, Call me Mom, and whizzed me off to Carries birthday party.
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It was so bizarre.
I didnt even know what death was and suddenly I was at a birthday party.
McDonalds ex-husband Harry Karl (a featured player in the True Crime story) married Reynolds in 1960.
I think thats what Harry Karl was looking for.
That was her natural empathy.
But it was a complex, intense situation.
There was nothing normal about Tina, but there was nothing normal about Carrie or I either.
Carrie used to call it our shared weirdness.
It was a very odd situation and there was some degree of jealousy.
Carrie was Debbies real daughter, and I have great empathy for Tina in that regard.
It was pretty intense.
The two girls shared a bedroom in Reynolds house.
It was a monster house, very modern, this big white marble stone cold house.
Todd was in the bedroom next to us.
Carrie and I went to the same school and were in the same grade.
We were rivals, at times.
We would fight, and we would make up.
He was like an old pervert, Diamond alleges.
Hed probably be arrested today for the things he did with us.
Back then nobody looked at it twice.
It wasnt the greatest education, but you could also say I got a better education.
One morning I woke up and they were packing for New York, she recalls.
Nobody was watching me, I had no supervision, and I became a wild child.
Who wouldnt at 16?
She adds, Thats where the book Im writing begins.
So I had surgery that day and Im still recovering.
None of it seems real.
