How Angela Lansbury saved her drug-addled daughter from Charles Manson

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died Tuesday at the age of 96 — recalled in a 2014 interview how her daughter, Deidre Shaw, fell in with Manson’s posse as a teenager. “It pains me to say it but, at one stage, Deidre was in with a crowd led by Charles Manson,” the actress told the Daily Mail. “She 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.”At the time, Lansbury was living with her husband, Peter Shaw, and their children in Malibu. “There were factions up in the hills above Malibu that were dedicated to deadly pursuits,” the star said, recalling how both daughter Deidre and son Anthony initially fell into drugs.“It started with cannabis but moved on to heroin,” she continued. “It 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’t know the significance of finding a pipe in a drawer.

Why would we?”After discovering the extent of their children’s drug problems, Lansbury and her husband decided to uproot their family and relocate to Ireland. “I said to Peter, ‘We have to leave.’ So we upped sticks and moved the family to a house I found in County Cork.