![]() And I felt it was really, really important for me not to lay on the comedy. Bill's not the easiest person in the world I've ever met, but he's brilliant at what he does. On working with Bill Murray in Groundhog Day But after Sex, Lies, and Videotape, I became a well-known actress and people perceived me as an actress, finally, and it made money. On how the 1989 Steven Soderbergh film Sex, Lies, and Videotape changed her lifeīefore Sex, Lies, and Videotape, nobody took me seriously. I spent money, good money, good coaching. It was just too mortifying for that to be me, that that was my story. I had to make it because I couldn't leave it like that. It was all unbeknownst to me, and it was really a hard thing to get out of, to move beyond that. No one ever said, "We don't like the way you sound." No one was ever clear or straightforward. On being devastated when her voice was completely dubbed in her first film, 1984's Greystoke That was the repercussion of that experience. It's not like that pass-out-on-the-floor kind of drunk. I told, I said, "They said you're going to be dead in five years," and she quit drinking alcohol she just drank wine, which I think it did make a difference. So we drove her home and I remember we got a speeding ticket on the way home. We just couldn't do it, so we didn't do it. and a doctor came down to the car and told us, "If you do not commit her today, she'll be dead in five years." But to commit her to a state institution? I don't know. Someone gave her a little bit of Valium, which I think was a huge mistake because I couldn't communicate with her when we got to the place and we just couldn't get her out of the car. I called everybody and said, "I can't leave her like this. I did an intervention for my mother when I was in the 12th grade, a failed intervention, unfortunately, but it was an intervention. On trying to do an intervention for her mother ![]() She never took a puff off of it, and then she'd have another one burning and another one burning, and there were burnt holes all in the couch and on the linoleum floor, there were marks, burn marks, all on the floor. She would have a cigarette in the ashtray and the ashes would just be completely burnt. ![]() And every night, I would get up to go and check that the cigarettes were not burning. she would pass out on the floor and I would put a pillow under her head and put a blanket on her. And I think that's how that's how she dealt with it. And she didn't really drink before she had the shock treatments, but she became an alcoholic afterwards. Back then, it was something that you hid, especially in a small town. It was like they would send women off and they were "cured.". She wasn't on medication and she didn't get any therapy because they just did things like that back then. But they gave her shock treatments, and she was sent away for about three months to a place in Asheville, N.C. ![]() It was shortly after I was born, so it could have been hormones involved. I think a lot of times people do these diagnoses because maybe they're having a psychotic event, but back then - this was in 1958 or '59 - I don't even know exactly. On her own mother's mental health disorder ![]()
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