[lonestar]

IIRC, all the sick stuff came out after her kids were grown and started talking...and writing.

She was probably bi-polar but nobody knew as much about it back then.

[miss marmelstein]

Helen Hayes was one star who backed up those children. She was a friend of Joan’s and admitted that she did nothing to stop the abuse. I think Joan was a raging alcoholic. Those famous late night events were when she was completely drunk.