Few know, but Angela Landsbury, during the sixties, she made a gesture of mother courage, saving her daughter from none other than Charles Manson, one of the worst serial killers in history (and who later became responsible, together with the "Manson Family", for the murder by Sharon Tate)
Sometimes i parents may make choices that seem unfair, when you don't dare, for their children, but the one made by Angela Landsbury, who died on 11 October 2022 at the age of 96, was the salvation for his daughter, Deirdre Angela.
Deirdre, who is now called Deirdre Battara and runs with her husband a Italian restaurant in Los Angeles, at that time he was a drug addict and, like many children of famous people (such as Dean Dean, daughter of the actor James Dean), fell under the influence of Charles Manson and his sect, "The Family".
Angela Landsbury, the story of his daughter's rescue in an interview some time ago
As told by the same Angela Landsbury in an interview with MailOnline in 2014, at first the daughter Deirdre started with cannabis, but then switched to heroin:
"In the hills above Malibu there were factions engaged in deadly research."
At a certain point Deirdre, even if theactress of "The Lady in Yellow" he never knew how the first meeting took place, he came into contact with Charles Manson:
“It pains me to say this, but at one point Deirdre was part of a group led by Charles Manson. She was one of the many young people who knew him and were fascinated by him. He was an extraordinary character, charismatic in many ways, no doubt. "
The choice of Angela Landsbury and her husband Peter Shaw after the Malibu fire
After that Angela Landsbury and Peter Shaw they found that their daughter was financing Manson's Family and she used drugs, cut her credit cards.
However, it was only after the their Malibu home was set on fire, that Angela Landsbury he understood that the situation had become very dangerous and, out of the blue, he decided to move his whole family to Cork, Ireland.
A choice that, for sure, at the time will not have been appreciated by Deirdre and Anthony Lansbury, but, which in fact, saved their lives and sent them away daughter of Angela Landsbury by Charles Manson.
“I have no doubt that we would have lost one or both of our children if we hadn't moved them to a completely different environment, the simplicity of Ireland. We were very lucky to be aware of what was happening in time. "
Who was Charles Manson, the leader who charmed the daughter of Angela Landsbury
Charles Manson, born on 12 November 1934 and died in prison on 19 November 2017, he is remembered as one of the worst criminals in US history, as well as for being the undisputed leader of the Manson familya sect devoted to the use of drugs.
Between June and July 1969, under orders from Manson, who thus hoped to unleash a war between blacks and whites that would eventually lead to the final Armageddon, its members were responsible for nine murders, including that ofactress Sharon Tate, wife of the director Roman Polanski, who was eight months pregnant at the time.
Charles Manson and members of his family who had committed murders, they were first sentenced to the gas chamber, but then, with theabolition of the death penalty in California, which took place in 1972, their sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
- heinous crimes committed by Charles Manson and his sect, in addition to entering the history of horror and crime early, they also marked the decline of hippy culture: people in fact, after those events (which had been committed by hippies), they began to look at the hippies with suspicion and to no longer trust them and, in a short time, their number decreased significantly.
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