{"id":95233,"date":"2022-10-12T22:16:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T22:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/how-angela-lansbury-saved-her-daughter-from-charles-manson\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T22:16:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T22:16:17","slug":"how-angela-lansbury-saved-her-daughter-from-charles-manson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/how-angela-lansbury-saved-her-daughter-from-charles-manson\/","title":{"rendered":"How Angela Lansbury saved her daughter from Charles Manson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Murder, she thwarted.  <\/p>\n<p>Angela Lansbury saved her drug-added daughter from Charles Manson&#8217;s cult in the late 1960s \u2014 shortly before its members carried out a series of slayings that shocked the world. <\/p>\n<p>Lansbury \u2014 who died Tuesday at the age of 96 \u2014 recalled in a 2014 interview how her daughter, Deidre Shaw, fell in with Manson&#8217;s posse as a teenager. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt pains me to say it but, at one stage, Deidre was in with a crowd led by Charles Manson,\u201d the actress told the Daily Mail.  \u201cShe was one of many youngsters who knew him and they were fascinated.  He was an extraordinary character, charismatic in many ways, no question about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Lansbury was living with her husband, Peter Shaw, and their children in Malibu. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were factions up in the hills above Malibu that were dedicated to deadly pursuits,\u201d the star said, recalling how both daughter Deidre and son Anthony initially fell into drugs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt started with cannabis but moved on to heroin,\u201d she continued.  \u201cIt fills me with dread.  Peter and I had no idea what had been going on.  But then we had no experience of drugs.  We didn&#8217;t know the significance of finding a pipe in a drawer.  Why would we?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Angela Lansbury saved her drug-added daughter, Deidre Shaw, from Charles Manson&#8217;s cult in the late 1960s.  Lansbury and Shaw are pictured together at left in 1990. Manson is seen at right. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images (2)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/angela-lansbury-023.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Angela Lansbury and daughter Deidre Angela Shaw in 2000. Deidre Shaw is pictured with mom Lansbury in 2000. The daughter was eventually able to beat her drug addiction and open a successful restaurant in Los Angeles. \" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Deidre Shaw is pictured with mom Lansbury in 2000. The daughter was eventually able to beat her drug addiction and open a successful restaurant in Los Angeles. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After discovering the extent of their children&#8217;s drug problems, Lansbury and her husband decided to uproot their family and relocate to Ireland. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said to Peter, &#8216;We have to leave.&#8217;  So we upped sticks and moved the family to a house I found in County Cork.  I was drawn to Ireland because it was the birthplace of my mother and it was also somewhere my children wouldn&#8217;t be exposed to any more bad influences,\u201d the five-time Tony winner recalled. <\/p>\n<p>There, Lansbury devoted herself to raising her teenage children full time, and she learned to cook and garden. <\/p>\n<p>The wholesome change help set both Deidre and Anthony on the straight and narrow, and the family eventually returned to California.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/angela-lansbury-022.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Angela Lansbury, husband Peter Shaw and son Anthony Shaw in 1979.\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Lansbury (center), husband Peter Shaw (left) and son Anthony Shaw are pictured in 1979.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/chales-manson-1.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"  In this 1969, file photo, Charles Manson is escorted to his arraignment on conspiracy-murder charges in connection with the Sharon Tate murder case. \" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Manson is pictured following his arrest.  Members of his cult committed nine brutal killings over the summer of 1969. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCertainly, I have no doubt we would have lost one or both of our two if they hadn&#8217;t been removed to a completely different milieu, the simplicity of life in Ireland,\u201d Lansbury recalled.  \u201cIn the end we found a doctor who prescribed methadone, a heroin substitute, which helped with the withdrawal symptoms as Anthony and Deidre were weaned off hard drugs.  We were so very, very lucky we spotted what was happening just in time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cMurder, She Wrote\u201d icon added that Anthony \u201cpulled right out of his bad habits quite quickly,\u201d while it \u201ctook Deidre a little longer\u201d to get sober. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe finally got married and she and her husband now live in Los Angeles, where they run their own Italian restaurant,\u201d Lansbury proudly declared. <\/p>\n<p>Deidre is 69, while Anthony recently celebrated his 70th birthday. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/charles-manson-06.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Manson is seen in 1971. Following his conviction, he spent the rest of his life behind bars. \" class=\"wp-image-24227090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/charles-manson-06.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/charles-manson-06.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/charles-manson-06.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Manson is seen in 1971. Following his conviction, he spent the rest of his life behind bars. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Popperphoto via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/sharon-tate-murder-1.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"This Aug.  9, 1969 file photo shows the body of actress Sharon Tate being taken from her rented house on Cielo Drive in the Bel-Air area of \u200b\u200bLos Angeles.  , Calif. \" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>This Aug.  9, 1969 file photo shows the body of actress Sharon Tate being taken from her rented house in LA. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following Lansbury&#8217;s death on Friday, writer Christopher Moloney took to Twitter to recall how the star had previously spoken about her daughter&#8217;s brush with Manson. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAngela Lansbury told a story about her daughter falling under the spell of a Hollywood deadbeat,\u201d Moloney <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Moloknee\/status\/1579957784077955072?s=20&amp;t=rliG_hTu625c90VlNjO0EA\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a>.  \u201cHe would pick the girl up from school and get her to steal money and food from her parents for him.  Worried, Lansbury moved the entire family to Ireland.  The guy was Charles Manson.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manson led the Manson Family \u2014 a Southern California commune and cult \u2014 in the late 1960s.  Several members committed nine murders during July and August of 1969, including the brutal slaying of Roman Polanski&#8217;s pregnant wife, Sharon Tate. <\/p>\n<p>Manson was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder, despite never directly ordering the killings.  The prosecution claimed, however, that the ideology of his cult constituted an act of conspiracy.  He died behind bars in 2017. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murder, she thwarted. Angela Lansbury saved her drug-added daughter from Charles Manson&#8217;s cult in the late 1960s \u2014 shortly before its members carried out a series of slayings that shocked the world. 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