She doesn't even know that I'm her mother
"She doesn't even know that I'm her mother
. She only knows that she likes me and I like her and she feels warmth and that I'm a nice person."
. She only knows that she likes me and I like her and she feels warmth and that I'm a nice person."
When actress Dorothy Dandridge gave birth to her only child, Harolyn Suzanne Nicholas, on September 2, 1943, she initially thought that her baby was healthy. It wasn't until the child's second birthday that Dandridge realized something was terribly wrong. The young girl didn't speak, and she didn't seem to recognize that Dandridge was her mother. At first, doctors said that Nicholas had psychological trauma because Dandridge was away from home so often while working in Hollywood. But experts later realized that Nicholas had suffered from cerebral anoxia — a lack of oxygen to her brain — at birth. With a heavy heart, Dandridge followed the doctors' advice to place her daughter with a caretaker. It was a decision she regretted for the rest of her life. Go inside the tragic story of Dorothy Dandridge's mentally disabled daughter:
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