![]() Victoria, who was born in Japan, has spoken in the past of the miserable childhood she endured as she, her mother and sister were shunted around a series of U.S. Mother and daughter had long had a difficult relationship. Miss Principal has never spoken publicly about this incident, but friends of her mother are upset that an online book of condolences contains glowing tributes from Kim, neighbours and even the late woman's hairdresser, but nothing from Victoria. 'But in all the time I knew Ree I met Victoria only once, when she visited her father years ago when he was very ill.' Ree's strained relationship with Victoria was one of the reasons, the friends told me this week, that the dying woman decided to forgo a funeral service and specified she wanted a hasty cremation to avoid a family row.ĭaisy Patterson, one of Ree's closest friends in her home town of Warner Robins, Georgia, told me this week: 'When she was first ill, her daughter Kim, Victoria's younger sister, came here from her home in California to help nurse her mother. ![]() They were shocked to receive a curt email in reply: 'Sorry to hear about your troubles. ![]() Her fellow Americans, given their lax attitude to firearems, may even find this forgiveable.īut her public image faces serious damage from claims by family friends this week that the actress shunned her 85-year-old mother Ree Principal before she lost her seven-month battle with lung cancer four weeks ago.Įarlier this year, friends of widowed Mrs Principal are reported to have contacted her famous daughter to tell her how dire her mother's health had become.ĭallas babes: Victoria flanked by co-stars Charlene Tilton (left) and Linda Gray The actress, who starred in Dallas for nine years in the Seventies and Eighties, does not, it seems, deny pulling the weapon on her employee or threatening to use it. This week, Victoria issued her own lawsuit in the Los Angeles Superior Court to counter-sue her former maid Maribel Banegas for 'trespass, civil extortion and animal cruelty'. They are said to have prepared a file, which has already been christened 'Victoria's Secrets' in Hollywood, which includes allegations of boozing, violence, and, I have learned, claims that Miss Principal turned her back on her dying mother as she finally succumbed to cancer last month. Lawyers for her former housemaid - who claims Miss Principal pulled a gun and threatened to kill her because she was annoyed about how long it took her to take the pampered Mei-Ling on her twice-daily walkies - are preparing a case that threatens to destroy the beautiful star's reputation and rob her of her riches. All of which might seem like eccentric behaviour for a former soap star.īut the actress's space odyssey pales into insignificance when set against the bizarre details of an impending court case that threatens to lift the lid on the increasingly strange world of the actress turned successful businesswoman. There are even suggestions that Miss Principal has been campaigning to take her beloved dog Mei-Ling, a rare Tibetan Lhasa Apso, with her into the stratosphere. She is regularly to be found in California's Mojave desert as she joins in training and flight simulation tests alongside the team of full-time professional astronauts.Įighties icon: Victoria with Patrick Duffy, who played Bobby in the hit show Dallas So up for the mission is Miss Principal, a licensed pilot, that she has persuaded Branson to allow her to be taught to fly the multimillion-pound spaceship (though surely even the publicity hungry Branson would balk at the thought of Dallas's Pam Ewing in control of his 2,500mph rocket). Indeed, thanks to her efforts - there are persistent rumours she's also gone under the knife, not least because she was married to a plastic surgeon for 21 years - her skin is so improbably taut that one suspects that when she is blasted 75 miles into orbit, the tremendous G-forces involved will barely generate a quiver on her suspiciously immobile face. Victoria is adamant she should look her best for next year's inaugural flight of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space mission - she has paid £100,000 for the privilege of being one of the world's first space tourists.
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