“I have had to make peace with not knowing,” she continues. “I wish others could do the same.”
And so, she focuses on the things she does know. “And I know that this is how she wants to be remembered. She was human, she was an artist who struggled and she was brave and she was happy.”
While writing the book and researching for the film, she read her mom’s journals and interviewed her closest friends. “I felt so proud of her,” says Natasha. “I’m proud that she was so thoughtful and that she wanted to be more than a movie star.”
While to the world, she remains one of the most incandescent stars of her time, Natasha remembers her as the mom who called her “Natooshie,” and loved to read her fairytales.
“She was a fairytale to me in a way,” says Natasha, “and I feel like she was waiting for me to get to a place in my growth where I could come and breathe life into her. Maybe she was ready sooner but she knew that I wasn’t. But now I am.”
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind will premiere Tuesday, May 5 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, exclusively on HBO.
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