![]() ![]() I was the last person to interview her before she died, and it was truly an honor. Now she returns with the gripping and expansive story of America’s coming-of-agetold through the extraordinary life of Gypsy Rose Lee and the world she survived and conquered. She shared many stories about her relationship with Gypsy–they were sort of death bed confessions. With the critically acclaimed Sin in the Second City, bestselling author Karen Abbott pioneered sizzle history (USA Today). She was still gorgeous but fierce I had the feeling that, if she were so inclined, she could leap up from that bed and strangle me with her bare hands. She had her white hair done up in these little pigtails and was eating her favorite snack of Oreos and milk. The first time I met her she was 96 and had been bedridden for years I couldn’t imagine how frustrating it must’ve been for someone who had been dancing since the age of two to lose the use of her legs. Erik implied that it wasn’t actually a cow at all but someone who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time… And talking with June Havoc was like time traveling back to the 1920s. For example, Gypsy’s memoir contains a scene in which her mother accidentally shoots a cow while they’re camping. Erik was really generous with his time and insights, telling me anecdotes that had never been published before. ![]()
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