“It stole her ability to be autonomous and independent and she couldn’t read … Her joy was robbed from her. So it was devastating,” says her widower.
The doc also delves into her often tough personal life which includes her younger sister, Elizabeth dying by suicide in 1978, an alcoholic mother, her own battles with alcohol and the loss of her only child, Richie.
His death came weeks after the release of the film “Ordinary People,” in which she played an emotionally distant mother grieving one son’s death and barely coping with the attempted suicide of the other.Moore was married to Levine for over 30 years.Levine says that in conversations with Moore, she felt “alienated” from her son when he was young, but claims they were working on patching up their relationship when he died.
“I guess that kind of happens when you finally find someone you’re comfortable [with] and can relax,” he tells us, “and who doesn’t judge and allows you to show a little bit more of yourself.
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