Patty Duke Admits She Lied About Sean Astin Parentage

[quote]In her latest memoir, Patty Duke admits

She's been dead for 3 years

R1 it was published posthumously. Patty Duke was working on it before she died.

Anything on cunty cousin Cathy?

R3 Patty wrote when she did the reunion movie she found playing Cathy BORING - which was switch when she originally played her.

Pat Duke was a great humanitarian and a genius of the thater. We will all be much better off after we hear her words of wisdom.

"Sean Astin maintains a relationship with all three men. "

What a whore.

I love her very much - but she sure did go on about herself

THREE autobiographies AND a TV drama about her life starring Patty herself and her real life kids.

I mean - gurl, puhlease!

Sean with Desi

Sean with Michael Tell

Her "Call Me Anna" is a very good read. There's no self-pity. But she does get to set the record straight on some things - she admits her 1970 Emmy speech was weird but the network made it stranger with a tight shot of her face as she was doing sign language so it looked as though she was blankly staring into space.

[quote] she admits her 1970 Emmy speech was weird but the network made it stranger with a tight shot of her face as she was doing sign language so it looked as though she was blankly staring into space.

She looked very good in spite of the crazy.

Thanks for this up to the minute report, OP.

Wonder if Desi Jr. will leave Sean some of that Lucy money in his will?

So Lucille Ball would have been Sean's grandmother. How weird for him.

She didn't know her husband's COCK was in her twat, shooting a load?????

One could easily sleep through it, R16.

She was unmedicated bipolar at the time, so it's quite possible. They often have blackouts, chunks of time, even days, they can't remember.

Ah, OK. Otherwise the mind boggles.

Isn't it great that people die?

She was only married to him for 17 days and she said in her bio (published in 1987) that she wouldn't have been able to know who Michael Tell was if she was face to face with him. She was so messed up at that point, her life was out of control.

Wouldn't you assume your husband had consummated the marriage sometime in the first 17 days even if you don't have any memory of the act. Especially, if you have large blocks of time unaccounted for by memory.

This is so dumb. Such trashy people.

😵 We all know that Patty was a little touched in the head.

A hot dog made her lose control.

Yeah, R11. The camera angle was the reason her Emmy speech was weird.

[quote]For his part, Sean Astin maintains a relationship with all three men.

Papa Mio! The Musical.

Glenn can play Patty.

For seventeen days she wasn't lucid enough to even have a conversation with her new husband and when she discovered she was pregnant, it never occurred to her to ask her ex if it might be his? So instead, she let someone else pretend to be Sean's father. Not once, but a second time when she lied again. How is Sean not in a mental institution?

Are you suggesting r24, that the father of her child was Oscar Mayer?

Patty Duke was one of the greats. Still miss her.

Humped 'n dumped

whores and grifters

Sean looks so much like Desi.

Here she is talking about this and Sean, talking about his "four Dads".

R9 Desi looks uncomfortable. Like someone is going to ask him for back child support.

I always thought that guy in VOD looked kinda cute, R30. Is that bad?

He looks just like mike tell.

Sean’s three dads is like a male version of the Mama Mia movie.

Sean looks like Tell. Same smile. See R10

Poor Sean, from what I've heard John Astin was a good father to him, thank goodness he had a stable adult in his life growing up because it sure wasn't 'Stable Mabel' his mother...

Michael Tell and Desi Arnaz, Jr. spit-roasted me at Pat's 35th birthday party. I miss those days. No one wants to spit roast me anymore except for Jimmie JJ Walker and Glenn Scarpelli.

I’m a true America’s sweetheart, dear. You have no class.

Wow she's been dead all these years and she's still writing...

Voice from the grave.

I don't know who the FUCK Chrissy is or who she thinks she is, but I am known as TV's Sweetheart, baby. I have never nor will ever claim to be AMERICA'S Sweetheart. America's sweetheart is my good pal, Sally Struthers. And if you don't like any of this, Chrissy, please feel free to suck on one of my engorged cunt lips, bitch.

She also misspelled Austin

You poor dear. Is the antenna not working on your TV in your trailer ? I’m the biggest star on the biggest series This is Us.

I have to agree with part of your statement, cheese tits. You are the fucking BIGGEST star on an once popular, now middling series. Don't ever sass me again, Metz. I walked so you could run or roll or whatever the fuck it is that you do. Now kick rocks, tubby.

Girls! Girls! Cunts!

I'd love to never see this photo again in my life - but some things you just have to live with, I guess.

I’ll say it again because it obviously didn’t sink in. You have no class , cupcake.

Eat your heart out.

There ya go again, fat. You can’t stop thinking about food for one god damn second. I bet your shits are the size of a stallion’s. You need to respek my name and keep it out yo mouth. You wanna get popped???

If she forgot what Mike Tell looked like all she had to do was look at her son. Two peas in a pod.

Oops. Meant to do this.

This book was released in February of last year. God knows why OP is just posting this now.

I just read the Lucy/Desi, Jr./Michael Tell chapter. I've always been a fan of her's and I still am, but she hurt a lot of people. I mean she bulldozed over people and their feelings, seemingly until she was finally diagnosed in 1982. But, even after that she lied about Sean's parentage, and for years refused to accept the DNA results. It's a good thing that she finally accepted it, even if she didn't do so publicly while she was alive.

I'm now even more sympathetic to Suzanne Pleshette, her Miracle Worker co-star, who shortly before he own death said she had no interest in Patty, or what she was doing.

r52

That's what I tell people about my dad

Patty hated the fact Sean was fat. That's why she did it

Wow, just tooling around on YouTube, I found Patty Duke on Playboy After Dark. My God, she's stunning here, two years after the failure of Valley of the Dolls.

I never realized what a piece of ass Rex Reed was in his day either.

The Patty/Rex segment starts at about 17:44, though I have it cued up.

R54 Suzanne held a grudge for forty years because of the way a pre teen Patty Duke treated her, and you think Duke is the one who comes off badly? Shit, even Joyce Dewitt managed to bury the hatchet with Suzanne Somers.

the 20/20 interview is sweet. Despite the parentage problem, they were a tight knit family. She remained close with Desi Jr and John Astin until her passing. Lucie Arnaz had nothing but kind things to say about her as well. The boys loved her and were very protective of her.

R58 Where did I say "Came off badly?" I know Patty Duke was dealing with abuse, and bi-polarism. But during the run of the play she tried to harm Suzanne Pleshette physically every night they took the stage together.

To add insult to injury, Patty dated Suzanne's ex-husband very soon after they were divorced. Never calling Suzanne to let her know, or discuss it or anything.

The point of my post was to say that at a certain point in her life, Patty treated certain people very badly who did not deserve it. Once she got better in the '80s, she would have 100% agreed with that statement.

Yes, for sure later in life Suzanne Pleshette maybe could have realized that Patty was an abused 14 year old at the time. That said, I can certainly understand why she didn't have great feelings about Patty Duke. I think Patty was too embarrassed to call her and say she was sorry, but I'd like to think if she had, they could've made peace.

When I was growing up, I knew three brothers who had an unmedicated bipolar mother and OMFG. It is a hideous situation to be in, with a parent who has that mental illness and isn't being treated for it.

Was there a list of people patty hadn’t fucked?

She was going to fuck Lucy O'Ball but Gary Morton talked her out of it.

R57 great find!

They talk about her latest film "Me Natalie" - why's it so fucking hard to find to watch smaller movies of that period?

R58 If she remained close to Desi and John, how come neither commented on her death or attended her memorial service? I don't believe she had any contact with Desi Jr for decades.

She did not remain close to Desi. They saw each other in 1982 and appeared on stage together at a People for the American Way benefit, but that was it. Sean remains close to Desi to this day, as far as I know.

She was not close to Desi Jr because she was afraid he'd borrow money.

Sean and Desi Jr bond over fast food they order and charge to their more successful siblings (Mackenzie and Lucie)

The memorial was in Idaho, not LA or NY. John was in his mid 80's at the time.

Michael Tell is Jewish, so Sean is half Jewish and has all these Jewish ancestors. He’ll have to learn to keep kosher, but only every other day, since he’s only half Hewish.