Anna's Mom: "Oh yeah, it'll get ugly"

The mother of the late Anna Nicole Smith predicted that the fight over her granddaughter Dannielynn would get "ugly," and dismissed Anna Nicole's rags-to-riches self-portrayal as mere myth-making.

In an interview on "Good Morning America," a disconsolate, almost disgusted Virgie Arthur described Anna Nicole as "wild and crazy," and reiterated that she'd warned her daughter to stop using drugs. She added that she "really sincerely" worries about five-month-old Dannielynn, and wants her to be with her father -- whoever that might be. When asked about the pending paternity battle, Arthur agreed that it would get ugly.

Curiously, Arthur also took the opportunity to debunk the myth that Anna Nicole's rise to fame was a classic rags-to-riches tale. "Why do you tell people stuff like that?" Arthur said she asked Anna Nicole. "I'll do whatever it takes," replied Anna Nicole. "If my name's out there, I make money."

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31. T-Mel,

U are sick to even think something like that. This woman and her son are dead. Let them rest in peace and keep your insane accusations to yourself!. U need prayer!

Posted at 9:48AM on Feb 9th 2007 by It\\\'s your turn now bitch

32. Her mother is being honest. Something Anna never did. She married that old coot out of love,Please. She wasn't loaded on most every day of her existence,please. She listed how many men as the father of her daughter? Two besides the guy who is going to turn ouot to be the father. She dodged paternity tests because she was being honest? She was married to and loved Howard K Stern. Sh*t it is endless what this waste of humanity was capable of and now her mother is going to be held up to ridicule. Plenty of people who get off to a bad start in this life make an honest life for themselves and Anna didn't so she is the piece of sh*t mother who has allowed her children to be murdered and now left with out a mother. As hard as it going to be for that baby she was handed good deal yesterday because now at least she has a chance.

Posted at 9:48AM on Feb 9th 2007 by Jim

33. I hope Ann Rule will jump all over this one and expose her "mother" for the kind of parent she really was. What a loser! No wonder Anna wanted to get away from her and the rest of her ignorant, trashy family!!!!!!!

Posted at 9:49AM on Feb 9th 2007 by Sorrowful

34. After seeing pictures of the mom and the sister, I'm thinking ANS father must have been one fine looking man cause these two have none of Anna's beauty. She may have been a mess but she was one beautiful woman. These two don't come close.

Posted at 6:05PM on Feb 9th 2007 by cashmere

35. Anna may not have come from "rags to riches" but if her "mother would talk about her this way ,she came from TRASH to Riches

Posted at 11:45AM on Feb 9th 2007 by NNBB

36. I believe it! I have a big super fat ,ugly, smelly, disgusting, chronically angry, hate-filled, woolly mammoth for a mother, too. And this heinous creature's jealousy started to come out toward me when I was 9 years old and she has bad mouthed me and worked against me ever since. All I can say is miserable fat slobs take out their misery on whoever they can. Anna Nicole dropped out of high school and ran away at 15. Take one look at her beach of a mom and you know why. Thanks for nothing you mountain of camel dung of a beast mom. Go climb back under your rock, fat smelly beast! No wonder Anna Nicole was on drugs.

Posted at 9:55AM on Feb 9th 2007 by Caroline

37. No wonder Anna had nothing to do with this b&^%$.

Posted at 10:54AM on Feb 9th 2007 by Beth

38. All I have to say is ... HOW SAD IS THAT? I had a mother just like this ...and I hope that baby is kept FAR away from her.

Posted at 11:11AM on Feb 9th 2007 by A concerned Mother

39. Great! Another white trash moron raising children. No wonder Anna Nicole ran away, used drugs, dated bad men. If this hog had cared one bit it might not have happened. No matter who gets that child I hope they keep her away from this horrid woman.

Posted at 10:24AM on Feb 9th 2007 by zelda

40. Just because someone dies, it doesn't make them a saint. Just a few days ago, Anna Nicole was calling her mother a fat pig on Entertainment Tonight. She has badmouthed her mother for years. If you have followed the coverage on the relationship between Anna Nicole and her family, you would have seen the videos and coverage of Anna Nicole and Daniel having a perfectly normal relationship with Anna Nicoles mother and family, up until about ten years ago. I've seen Anna Nicoles mothers begging her to get help and telling her she loved her over the past ten years. How else was she supposed to try to get to her, since Anna Nicole has been drugged and drug around by Howard K. Stern for the past decade?

I'm sure there is alot of anger in Anna Nicoles mother. I don't blame her. Remember, she lost a daughter too. A daughter who has done nothing but badmouth her relentlously over the past decade. She tried to reach out several times and got nothing but slapped in the face. In the end, her mother was right. She may not be the type of person you like and you might not like what she is saying, but she did turn out to be right about Anna Nicole. I bet she wishes more than anything that she wasn't.

Posted at 10:05AM on Feb 9th 2007 by Mo

41. TO THE MOTHER OF ANNA NICOLE YOU ARE A WORTHLESS PIECE OF SH*T THAT WILL PAY ONE WAY OR ANOTHER FOR EVERYTHING YOU PUT YOUR OWN DAUGHTER THROUGH, ROTT IN HELL AND I HOPE HOWARD STERN NEVER LETS YOU SEE THAT BABY.....

Posted at 10:02AM on Feb 9th 2007 by To the MOM and LARRY

42. If anyone brought shame it's Anna's (mother) if you want to call her that. No wonder poor Anna removed her from that family. If my daughter had just died, I would be on my knees begging God to forgive me for whatever hurt I caused her; not blabbing my big fat mouth to the media. I hope and pray that Dannielyn, will never know such a grandmother. Dannielyn, has two men claiming to be the father; whichever one is proven to be the father; is the one that she should be with. You can see that both love her.
My family and I are praying for Anna Nicole and Daniel. Now they are together and Anna's fear of Daniel not having anyone to meet him is over. Rest in Peace, to a mother and son.

Posted at 10:04AM on Feb 9th 2007 by Alice

43. I don't understand why people are so surprised to see Anna had a bad mother -- she grew up in Mexia, Tx. Have you ever seen Mexia??? And she is a typical Cracker MaMa doing what Cracker MaMas do: complain -- about their life, their kids, their boyfriends, the local convenience store, the local car mechanic. No matter what a Cracker MaMa says it has to be some sort of complaint. These people aren't even as happy as the people who go on Jerry Springer. Cracker MaMa is a product of her environment and there is *no way* to escape Crackerland in one piece because Cracker MaMas tell their babies that the way they live and behave is just fine. Poor Anna was doomed from the start. And if all her family and Cracker MaMa inherited all of the Howard Marshall money they wouldn't change. They'd figure out a way to spend the billions in a year and go back to living in Crackerland bitchin' and moanin' about whatever just like Cracker MaMa

Posted at 10:35AM on Feb 9th 2007 by M Matthews

44. What a skank. She shouldn't even be able to call herself a mother. Anything can spawn. She and the rest of her money grubbing so called family are pathetic. And Larry Birkhead crying about how much he loved her when he sues and harrasses her for months? I think I'll believe the only person who hasn't plastered his face on tv for the last 24 hours.....her husband. He may have been an enabler but he stuck by her for years. Hopefully there is somebody worth a sh*t in all of this to raise that baby.

Posted at 10:25AM on Feb 9th 2007 by zelda

45. WHAT IS WRONG FOR A MOTHER TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT HER DAUGHTER DID. THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN CHILDREN ARE DISOBIENT TO THIE PARENTS. THE BIBLE SAYS OBEY YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER SO YOUR DAYS WILL BE LONG ON THIS EARTH. THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES FOR LIVING IN SIN. THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH. AND YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE .

Posted at 1:19PM on Feb 9th 2007 by Ramona

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