{"id":544088,"date":"2026-03-25T09:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/544088\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:32:13","slug":"larry-birkhead-on-anna-nicole-smith-cult-like-relationship-her-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/544088\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Birkhead\u00a0on Anna\u00a0Nicole Smith \u201cCult-Like\u201d\u00a0Relationship, Her Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI don’t want to make excuses for him because in the moment, it hurt what he was doing to me,\u201d Larry explained. \u201cI try to see everything from both sides, but I do know that it became difficult to exist in the relationship with her.\u201d<\/p>\n

E! News has reached out to Howard for comment and has not heard back.<\/p>\n

These days, Larry\u2014who raised Danielynn as a single father\u2014is focused on helping\u00a0the teen\u00a0step into young adulthood while avoiding those looking to benefit from her notoriety.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has great friends\u2014but I\u2019ve learned to keep one eye open,\u201d he told E! News in June<\/a>. \u201cIt feels like I\u2019m always on security duty, always scanning the room. We\u2019ve had to make life adjustments. But at the same time, we\u2019ve had so much support.\u201d<\/p>\n

Larry added of his daughter, \u201cI\u2019m proud of the young woman she\u2019s become: silly, smart, fun and beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI don’t want to make excuses for him because in the moment, it hurt what he was doing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-544088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}