Anna's Mother: "She Got Mixed Up in Drugs"

Anna Nicole Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, made a very public plea to her daughter back in November -- urging Anna to start a new life away from drugs.

On a November episode of "The Dr. Keith Ablow Show" Arthur said, "Vickie Lynn, please, you have a family baby ... we're still here for you. You don't have to have drugs, you've got a beautiful baby girl now. You need to start life over, you need to be a great mom and live life now."

Though the cause of Anna's death is as yet unknown, her mother told Ablow she was always concerned about her daughter's drug habits, "I'm disappointed that she got mixed up in drugs and the wrong people ... she lives on drugs now," and added she did not believe Howard K. Stern was the father of Smith's child, Dannielynn.

Virgie also made a chilling prophecy in October on Nancy Grace's CNN show; "If Howard Stern marries her and she ends up dead, then who does the money go [to]? Danny's not there."

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31. Anna's mother (knowingly or unknowingly) spoke a curse (death) over her daughter's life. "For life and death are in the power of the tongue" and those words were fulfilled.

Posted at 10:46PM on Feb 8th 2007 by Cheery

32. What kind of a mother gets on national television and bashes their child? It is obvious that Anna Nichole didn't want a relationship with her mother after the terrible things her mother said and accused Anna Nichole of. Hopefully this woman WILL NOT get custody of that poor little baby! Let her stay with the man that has helped raise her and helped Anna Nichole through these tragic last months of her life. Let her now rest in peace!

Posted at 4:28PM on Feb 9th 2007 by T. Thompson

33. Something isn't right, she was excited about her new house she just bought, she loved her daughter. Stress and anxiety didn't kill Anna Nicole, Howard K. Stern killed Anna Nicole, as well as her son. Don't blame her mother and say she messed her up, Howard made sure she had no contact with her family. Anna Nicole was pretty doped up on something in one of her last interviews, Howard was with her. If someone you love has an obvious problem like that, wouldn't you do whatever you could to get them help or at least keep them from making a fool out of themselves in an interview? Now it's easy for Howard to sit back and say, "See for yourselves, she had a drug problem!". Hopefully, there will be some good detectives on this that won't blow it.

Posted at 12:07AM on Feb 9th 2007 by Bob

34. Anna's "Mother", Virgie had a lot of nerve advising Anna on TV to be a good mother. Virgie doesn't and =never= did know how to be a "Good mother". She just took advantage of the situations to get her fat mug on TV.
Actions speak louder than words. We all know why Anna had nothing to do with Virgie and the rest of her greedy family.
I hope they don't get any more press and none of Anna's money!

Posted at 12:09AM on Feb 9th 2007 by Mica

35. I don't trust Howard K. Stern.

Posted at 12:28PM on Feb 9th 2007 by hope

36. IT's The Texian's Billionaire's Curse.......How can all these deaths happen within a year??? Now who will be the nezt victim?????? Howy?

Posted at 1:12AM on Feb 9th 2007 by Pancho Negro

37. Yup, Stern did it... Look at him; he always looks like a conniving little weazel in the shadows. Creepy!

Posted at 1:09PM on Feb 10th 2007 by AMO

38. People like Virgie Arthur are quite possibly the worst examples of the human race.
How dare she get on television and start talking about how she tried to "intervene," the good mother she is.
Where was she when her daughter dropped out of high school? Where was she when her daughter married at 17? When her daughter was a single mother trying to make ends meet as a Walmart employee?
But most of all, where was her mother when Anna Nicole was growing up, such that her daughter had to disgrace and humiliate herself as she chased an elusive dream of fame and fortune? Where was her mother to teach her about anything like that?
Anna Nicole's life was a tragedy. Whatever people said about her, at least she wasn't some bitch who walked around like she was some kind of goddess (oh, you know, like Lindsay Lohan). I think she loved her son immensely, and where there is that much love, there is never a terrible person.
I hope she rests in peace.

Posted at 2:13AM on Feb 9th 2007 by collegegirl

39. Her mother screwed her up.

Posted at 3:26AM on Feb 9th 2007 by Katie

40. See a lady standing there.
So sad and so hurt.
Believe me, if only knew.
You could see her pain.

She feels for no one to see.
She hides so well,
behind herself.

Whether a shield or coat,
she hopes it doesn’t rain.

Cause you can’t predict,
But you weather the pain.

No matter what-
All you’re taught-
It’s all you got.

Cover it up it’s always cold,
Open your heart,
warmth is all you need

Won’t let you down,
loves you all the time.
Is what you think.

Take it off.
Do not dare.
Bare your soul.
Thoughts you never share.

Can not do.
That coat you see.
Not only protects you,
But always me.

Get drenched in love.
Only an optimist can see.

Take it off they say.
Show yourself to me.

Do not dare.
Pretend you don’t care.
Can not chance.
No one understanding me.

Probable don’t believe.
Is all I can say.

.

Posted at 12:21PM on Feb 9th 2007 by paulette

41. I think for all parties concerned that this has to be the saddest time, they did not have a relationship that partied so sadly and the mother I feel truly loved her daughter and grandson. Sometimes people get caught up in thinking that the family is against the way they live and in the end a tragedy happens and nobody wins, they can never tell each other again how much they really love one another.

I hope for the child sake that the family will bond with her, and that Stern does not get custody of this child, I truly believe that he was part of the problem and when you have a lost you cling to that person that is by your side and do not look beyond that to see the hardship the family is facing. I think that Larry will let the family know his daughter, and if he is not the father let that child go to Anna's family to be raised. I think Bobby Trendy is correct that the whole bunch of them just took and took from Anna and she was lonely and could not see it.

Now we must let her rest in peace and hopefully she is with her son and can watch over her daughter as a guardian angle to help direct this child in the right light.

Our sympathy goes out to the family and to the daughter.

Posted at 5:07PM on Feb 10th 2007 by maryjo

42. Post #31, College girl~
According to Virgie herself she was working for the Sheriff's Department in Houston. She would have had insurance and been able to get her daughter some help when she needed it. She decided to ship Anna Nicole off to her sister's house (so she wouldnt have to deal with her herself) to live in the middle of butthole, Tx. Virgie's JOB was more important than her kids. Yep, Saint Virgie was a PERFECT mom. I believe that most of ANS' problems stem from her upbringing. I refuse to watch the clip since I already watched the show so I dont know if they showed it or not, but Dr. Keith tried more than once to get Virgie to acknowledge that SHE may have had a hand in how HER OWN DAUGHTER turned out and Virgie denied it every time; she refused to take any responsibility. Virgie had how many kids to how many men? And left them to raise themselves or shipped them off because she couldnt "deal" with them and had to work? She seems so proud of the 28 years she put in the sheriff's department. It doesnt surprise me at all that ANS could be selfish and self serving, i think she learned it from the best - her own mother.

That said, i DO have to admit that NO ONE deserves to lose a grandchild, then a daughter, and quite possibly another grandchild in a matter of months(I dont think Dannielynn is in any danger, I just think HKS will somehow retain custody of her and not allow ANS' estranged family any contact). No matter the past (or how i personally feel about Virgie), ANS' family DOES deserve A LITTLE sympathy, because these are a lot of losses to take all at once.

Anna, I hope you found your peace. May your next time around be everything you want.

Posted at 3:55AM on Feb 9th 2007 by AJ

43. Virgie has done her very best to get through to her, but her stupid idiot dauhgter was just to dumb to listen to her I guess, typical.
To answer your question Jim no Anna and Howie were't legaly married, they couldn't under Bahaman law, they just had this stupid commitment ceremony on a yacht all a happy as ever while Daniel lay there in a funeral home waiting to be buried for a month while little vicki lynne had a dress made for the funeral, wow, does that sound like a grieving mother to you? it sure didn't to me Larry Birkhead is the baby's natural father, Howard K. Stern convinced Anna to leave him and they ewent to hide out in the Bahamas.
I agree that it seems very sus. The fact that the baby was back in the Bahamas and that Anna was showing the same symptoms that Daniel did before he died and the fact Howie is implicated in his death.
I just hope that the autopsy sheds some light on the situation. I would love to see that a**hole go to jail and Larry get custody of baby D.L.

Posted at 4:54AM on Feb 9th 2007 by Sam.

44. R.I.P Anna Nicole.
poor rich girl.
i hope you,re son is whaiting for you.
God bless you,re little girl
jolanda netherlands

Posted at 5:07AM on Feb 9th 2007 by jolanda van erp

45. Wow, so many hostile people towards Anna's mother! So what kind of mother do you think Anna was? She lived on life on drugs and made her son into her "parent", he had to take care of her because she couldn't take care of herself. She married a man in his 80's for money. How much money does one really need to take care of a child? What about all of the other fine WalMart employees who raise their children on their own salaries and not off of screwing old men for it? Also, what kind of mother would prevent the biological father from having any contact with his child? If she knows that Larry isn't the child's father, she could have easily ended his quest by submitting to the paternity test at the birth of her child. She was the one who refused for 5 months to submit to the court orders! Larry was concern about all the drugs and his child's safety. What kind of mother would not suspect the lawyer for killing her son - when she knows that her son was not someone who would be taking methadone (she did), and that her son and lawyer did not get along. Wouldn't a loving mother want to know the truth, and find out what happen to her son before she goes off to "commit" herself to the very man who may have killed her son. With her son dead, she needed to depend on Stern and have a caretaker because her son wasn't there for her anymore. For all you people attacking Anna's mother, maybe you should look at Anna a little closer. Also, either you never had a loved one on drugs, or are on drugs yourself and do not realize how challenging it is to parent them. Poor Daniel, he had to be the adult his entire life to care for a mother who could not grow up.

Posted at 6:40AM on Feb 9th 2007 by Janet

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