Mia Farrow was not a fan of Joan Crawford.
In a brand new Interview journal piece, Farrow, 80, spoke to fellow Broadway star Cole Escola about Crawford, calling the “Our Dancing Daughters” actress “scary.”
“And she was scary in person as well,” Farrow added.
The “Alice” star recalled that she interacted with Crawford as a teen whereas filming “Peyton Place” on the Fox lot in California.
On the time, Crawford — who was virtually 40 years older than Farrow — was married to Pepsi-Cola president Alfred Steele.
“For whatever reason, she started sending a whole refrigerator of Pepsi Cola for my trailer ’cause I was in a TV series called ‘Peyton Place,’” Farrow defined. “I don’t particularly like Pepsi Cola, but a lot of Pepsi Cola kept coming to my trailer, more than anyone would ever want. And then she came over to see me and I got a strange vibe from her.”
Farrow described one other bizarre second with Crawford at her mom Maureen O’Sullivan’s home in New York.
“So I’m back in New York, and she knew my mother. I hung up people’s coats for my mom when they came into the house,” Farrow shared. “And I hung her coat and out falls a flask of alcohol. She grabbed it like that, and she put it in her handbag. She drank quite a lot.”
Moreover, Farrow recalled that she was 17 she had an disagreeable expertise at Crawford’s NYC condo.
“I thought it was a party, but I arrived, and I was the only one there,” Farrow mentioned, including, “I was 17, and everything was green in her apartment. It just had very low lighting.”
“And there were no other guests, just Ms. Crawford and me,” Farrow continued. “And I just wasn’t very comfortable. So I just made up a lie that I wasn’t feeling very well and I didn’t want to give her any diseases. I think I said the word ‘diseases’ as I walked out of the room. I was scared of Ms. Crawford.”
Crawford died in Might 1977.
The legendary actress had an notorious feud together with her “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” co-star Bette Davis.
Farrow, in the meantime, was shut associates with Davis, who died in 1989 at age 81.
Within the Interview journal story, Farrow slammed Davis’ daughter B.D. Hyman’s 1985 memoir, “My Mother’s Keeper,” and known as it “a trashy book.”
“B.D. betrayed her mother in a horrible way, wrote a trashy book and stuff,” mentioned Farrow. “So we’ve known each other since childhood but I lost all respect for her. I really loved her mother, by the way.”
