The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

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Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

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