Yeah ... that's kind of what I gathered in reading about her and her background.
It's no wonder she hooked up with a rich old man. Sure part of t was for the money. He got cheap thrills from her but the bigger need, a FATHER figure was in her life. The money allowed her to feel secure and he probably doted on her.
She must have been pretty desperate for love to go along with an old man with nearly two feet in the grave for it. She lost her dignity and self resepct some time ago ... so this was just another chapter in her life.
I see this time and time again. Family is so important. With girls they need a father present. He is their introduction to other men at a later time. If he runs out, there is terrible insecurity. A dad is supposed to love and nurture them and protect them from predators like the ones she was hanging out with in the end.
Don't get me wrong, moms are important too. Each plays a distinct and necessary role in the life of a child. Smith was almost guaranteed the terrible ending she had. She was so out of it on drugs and so exploited while drugged that she had no resistance to them. She paid their way and they helped themselves and kept her out of it.
She turned out to be a sad soft porn joke. Any beauty she had was gone. How she dressed and looked was a mockery of anything remotely relating to beauty. Her life was a tragedy.
Yes. Apparently Anna liked the old fellow in her life for his money to give her security- after the life she had known growing up.
Too bad she didn’t get any of it. Her daughter could have had a better life.
It’s good that mother of Anna’s didn’t get her paws on Danilynne. The father who got custody of her seems like a pretty good guy.
That lawyer of hers, Howard, ought to go to jail for getting her all that dope. (as well as the doctors who were prescribing it)