10 Things I Learned From Eartha Kitt’s “Unsung Hollywood” Episode
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Veronica Wells
Her mother chose her man over her
There’s a bit of discrepancy on whether or not Anna Mae Keitt, the woman who Kitt believed was her mother actually was. Either way, when her mother met a man, he told her that he didn’t want “that yellow girl” to live with them. So her mother had her sent away. A few years later, when Kitt was just seven, she watched her mother die. She believed she was poisoned. Kitt’s daughter told The Guardian, “She was convinced her mother was poisoned. My mother remembered being brought to her mother who was dying and a baby was passed over her mother’s body. My mother’s interpretation was that this was because the death was not natural: it was voodoo. It was spiritual.”
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