Christina Crawford wrote MOMMIE DEAREST about Joan Crawford, describing the wire-hangers, the beatings, the attempted murder, having her favorite dress torn to shreds because Christina tore a bit of wallpaper from the wall, the Christmas Cards, "you know where the Booze AND the boys are"...etc. BD Hyman wrote MY MOTHER'S KEEPER on her mom, Bette Davis, assuminh she'd die from the stroke. When it didn't happen, BD got disowned. If anything, BD herself came off worse, as entitled and judgmental as well as sexist, blaming her mom for the abuse Gary Merrill inflicted on her. She also thought her ex, Sachi's dad, was an alien.