Relationships with parents change all the time. They’re just like kids sometimes...but in this case, we know that when Danny died, Anna tried to get in touch with her mother.
I agree but ..
I don’t believe they ever were really close or that their relationship changed in anyway over time much. Except for Sterns control and playing on ANS drugged out mind and retarded emotional growth.
Mom working, a tribe of kids to care for equally. I don’t see the wild child and Anna’s excessive neediness w/ narcissistic cravings for ALL the attention mixing for any good relationship. Tension. Doesn’t mean totally alienated. I think that part was HKS’s doing. I also see Virgie getting tired, weary of the drug problems and letting go and letting God kind of thing. There if she reaches out, but not coddling her drug habit. Know what I mean. But none of it lends for a good relationship. I believe Virgie had the clearest head about it from what we know so far tho. She knew she couldn’t force it and it had to be ANS choice. She would be there if and when needed like a loving mom letting go but always hoping.
I think she really did love her and HKS’s sales pitch isn’t believable. His entire goal was to isolate her and feed her paranoid ideations. I can’t wait for that lawsuit to blast letters and tapes from mom right in his face.