Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
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.
I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.
I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.
I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.
When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.